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What? Do you think that the people is judge of a man's
worth? Perhaps it is sometimes. I wish indeed it were so
always. But it is very seldom the case, and if it ever is, it is so when the
question is concerning the election of those magistrates to whom it
considers that its own safety is entrusted. At the less important comitia, honours are gained by the diligence and
influence of the candidates, and not by those high qualities which we see
exist in you. For, as to what concerns the people, that man must always be
an incompetent judge of worth who either envies any one or favours any one,
although you cannot, O Laterensis, point to any good quality in yourself, as
peculiarly entitled to praise, which Plancius has not in common with you.
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