Is it for this that the people made us consuls, that, being placed on the loftiest and most honorable step of dignity, we should consider the republic of no importance? Cicero. Orations, The fourteen orations against Marcus Antonius (Philippics). Speech 1. Section 14.
Image: The Triumph of Cicero, 1520 by Franciabigio and Alessandro Allori in the collection of the Villa Medici courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
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