Brave men would repress mischievous citizens

There was once such virtue in this republic, that brave men would repress mischievous citizens with severer chastisement than the most bitter enemy.  M. Tullius Cicero.  Against Catiline.  Speech 1.  Section 1.


Image: Apollo flaying Marsyas by Antonio Corradini 1710-1750 at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

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