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The games he will leave to
us idiots, as he calls us. For he is in the habit, in all his arguments, of
preferring the pleasures of his stomach to all delight of his eyes and ears.
For though you have perhaps considered him previously only dishonest, cruel,
and a bit of a thief, and though he now appears to you also voracious, and
sordid, and obstinate, and haughty, and deceitful, and perfidious, and
imprudent, and audacious, know, too, that there is also nothing which is
more licentious, nothing more lustful, nothing more base, nothing more
wicked than this man. But do not think that it is mere luxury to which he is
devoted.
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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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