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fallacem hominum spem fragilemque fortunam et inanis
nostras contentiones, quae medio in spatio saepe franguntur
et corruunt aut ante in ipso cursu obruuntur, quam
portum conspicere potuerunt! Nam quam diu Crassi fuit
ambitionis labore vita districta, tam diu privatis magis officiis
et ingeni laude floruit quam fructu amplitudinis aut rei
publicae dignitate; qui autem annus ei primus ab honorum
perfunctione aditum omnium concessu ad summam auctoritatem
dabat, is eius omnem spem atque omnia vitae consilia
morte pervertit.
M. Tulli Ciceronis Rhetorica. M. Tullius Cicero. A. S. Wilkins. 1902.
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