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For he needs some such reason
as that to preserve him from feeling shame at entreating such a one as Antony. Again if we urge
Gaius Caesar1 to accept the crown we shall assert
that the state is doomed to destruction unless controlled by a monarchy. For the sole aim of the man
who is deliberating about committing a criminal act
is to make his act appear as little wicked as possible.
1 Julius Caesar.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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