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quod si quis de contentione
principatus laborat, quae nulla esse debet, stultissime facit,
si vitiis cum virtute contendit; ut enim cursu cursus, sic in
viris fortibus virtus virtute superatur. tu, si ego de re
publica optime sentiam, ut me vincas, ipse pessime senties?
aut1, si ad me bonorum concursum fieri videbis, ad te improbos
invitabis? nollem, primum rei publicae causa,
deinde etiam dignitatis tuae. sed si principatus ageretur,
quem numquam expetivi, quid tandem mihi esset2 optatius?
ego enim malis sententiis vinci non possum, bonis forsitan
possim et libenter.
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M. Tullius Cicero. M. Tulli Ciceronis Orationes: Recognovit breviqve adnotatione critica instrvxit Albertus Curtis Clark Collegii Reginae Socius. Albert Curtis Clark. Oxford. e Typographeo Clarendoniano. 1918. Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis.
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