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Turn to another school, and then speak thus of a triumph: “What is
the meaning of that chariot? What is the use of those generals bound in
front of the chariot? and of the images of towns? and of the gold? and of
the silver? and of the lieutenants on horseback? and of the tribunes? What
avail all the shouts of the soldiery? and all that procession? To hunt for
applause, to be carried through the city, to wish to he gazed upon, are all
mere trifles, believe me, things to please children. There is nothing in all
those things which you can grasp as solid, nothing which you can refer to as
causing pleasure to the body.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. George Bell & Sons, York Street, Covent Garden. 1891.
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