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There is also some anxiety mingled
with this pleasure, and a greater apprehension of laws and of trials. We
have never despised those considerations;” (for so they argued;)
“but we have adopted this tranquil and easy kind of life, which,
because it does not bring honours with it is also free from
annoyance.” “You are just as much a judge as I am a
senator.” “Just so, but you sought for the one honour,
and I am compelled to accept of the other; wherefore, it ought to be lawful
for me either to decline being a judge, or else I ought not to be subject to
any new law which ought properly to regulate only the conduct of
senators.”
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