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I have made this digression, O conscript
fathers, not so much for the sake of speaking of myself (for I should be in a
sorry plight if I were not sufficiently acquitted in your eyes without the
necessity of making a formal defense), as with the view of warning some men of
too groveling and narrow minds, to adopt the line of conduct which I myself have
always pursued, and to think the virtue of excellent citizens worthy of
imitation, not of envy. There is a great field in the republic, as Crassus used
very wisely to say; the road to glory is open to many.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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