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But this is a common state of things,
that brave men, even after they have fought together in close combat sword
in hand, still lay aside the hostility engendered by the contest at the same
time that they cease from the battle itself, and lay down their arms. Nor,
indeed, was he ever able to hate me, not even when we were most at variance.
Virtue, which you do not even know by sight, has this quality, that its
appearance and beauty delight brave men even when existing in an enemy.
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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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