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haec vera laus est, quae non poetarum carminibus,
non annalium monumentis celebratur, sed prudentium
iudicio expenditur. equitem Romanum veterem
amicum suum studiosum, amantem, observantem sui non
libidine, non turpibus impensis cupiditatum atque iacturis,
sed experientia patrimoni amplificandi labentem excepit,
corruere non sivit, fulsit et sustinuit re, fortuna, fide, hodieque
sustinet nec amicum pendentem corruere patitur; nec
illius animi aciem praestringit splendor sui nominis, nec
mentis quasi luminibus officit altitudo fortunae et gloriae.
sint sane illa magna, quae re vera magna sunt;
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M. Tullius Cicero. M. Tulli Ciceronis Orationes: Recognovit brevique adnotatione critica instruxit Albertus Curtis Clark. Albert Clark. Oxonii. e Typographeo Clarendoniano. 1909. Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis.
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