And works in your literature rightly praise that ruler of a
country who consults the welfare of his people more than
their inclinations.

VII. Tully, in those books which he wrote upon the
Commonwealth, could not conceal his opinions, when he speaks
of appointing a chief of the State, who, he says, must be
maintained by glory; and afterward he relates that his
ancestors did many admirable and noble actions from a desire
of glory.

Tully, in his treatise on the Commonwealth, wrote that the
chief of a state must be maintained by glory, and that a
commonwealth would last as long as honor was paid by every
one to the chief.

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Which virtue is called fortitude, which consists of
magnanimity, and a great contempt of death and pain.

VIII. As Marcellus was fierce, and eager to fight, Maximus
prudent and cautious.

Who discovered his violence and unbridled ferocity.

Which has often happened not only to individuals, but also to
most powerful nations.

In the whole world.

Because he inflicted the annoyances of his old age on your
families.

IX. Cicero, in his treatise on the Commonwealth, says, "As
Menelaus of Lacedaemon had a certain agreeable sweetness of
eloquence." And in another place he says, "Let him cultivate
brevity in speaking."

By the evidence of which arts, as Tully says, it is a shame
for the conscience of the judge to be misled. For he says,
"And as nothing in a commonwealth ought to be so uncorrupt as
a suffrage and a sentence, I do not see why the man who
perverts them by money is worthy of punishment, while he who
does so by eloquence is even praised. Indeed, I myself think
that he who corrupts the judge by his speech does more harm
than he who does so by money, because no one can corrupt a
sensible man by money, though he may by speaking."

And when Scipio had said this, Mummius praised him greatly,
for he was extravagantly imbued with a hatred of orators.

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INTRODUCTION TO THE SIXTH BOOK.

In this last book of his Commonwealth, Cicero labors to show
that truly pious philanthropical and patriotic statesmen will
not only be rewarded on earth by the approval of conscience
and the applause of