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"Or what do we think of Caesar? Had he foreseen that in the Senate, chosen in most part by
himself, in Pompey's hall,1 aye, before Pompey's
very statue, and in the presence of many of his own
centurions, he would be put to death by most noble
citizens, some of whom owed all that they had to
him, and that he would fall to so low an estate that
no friend—no, not even a slave—would approach
his dead body, in what agony of soul would he have
spent his life!
"Of a surety, then, ignorance of future ills is more
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profitable than the knowledge of them.
1 Built by Pompey and used as a meeting-place for the Senate.
Cicero: De Senectute De Amicitia De Divinatione. With An English Translation. William Armistead Falconer. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Mass., London, England. 1923.
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