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but yet,
that those men are not miserable who have exceeded their fellow-citizens in
good deeds. Moreover, that of all the rewards of virtue, if one is to make
an estimate of the different rewards, the most honourable of all is glory;
that this is the only reward which can make amends for the shortness of
life, by the recollection of posterity; which can cause us
while absent, to be present when dead to be still alive; that this is the
thing by the steps of which men appear to mount even to heaven.
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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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