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timelets ([personal profile] timelets) wrote2017-01-14 05:51 pm

Quote of the Day: Cicero, the Caesarian speech on Behalf of Marcellus

And although I trust that the suspicion is an ungrounded one, still I will not speak so as to make light of it. For caution for you is caution for ourselves. So that, if we must err on one side or the other, I would rather appear too fearful, than not sufficiently prudent.

--- Cicero. Marcellus, 21.
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0020%3Atext%3DMarc.%3Asection%3D21

[M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. George Bell & Sons, York Street, Covent Garden. 1891.]