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And in that war, I always thought it right to listen to all proposals that
gave any hope of peace, and I always grieved that not only peace, but that
even the language of those citizens who asked for peace, should be rejected.
For I never approved of either that or of any civil war whatever; and my counsels were always allied to peace and peaceful measures,
not to war and arms. I followed the man from my own private feelings, not
because of my judgment of his public conduct; and the faithful recollection
of the grateful disposition which I cherish had so much influence with me,
that though I had not only no desire for victory, but no hope even of it, I
rushed on, knowingly, and with my eyes open, as it were to a voluntary
death.
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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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