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He,
like a wise man, knew that this was always the law, that those men from whom the
things which tyrants had taken away had been taken, might recover them when the
tyrants were slain. No lawyer, therefore, not even he who is your lawyer and
yours alone, and by whose advice you do all these things, will say that any
thing is due to you by virtue of that bond for those things which had been
recovered before that bond was executed. For he did not purchase them of you;
but, before you undertook to sell him his own property, be had taken possession
of it. He was a man—we, indeed, deserve to be despised, who hate the
author of the actions, but uphold the actions themselves.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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