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quae et in deliberando plurimum valent. Sed
honestas1 causas habent recta, prava contra ex falsis
opinionibus veniunt. nam est his initium ex iis,
quae credunt bona aut mala; inde errores existunt
et pessimi adfectus, in quibus sunt ira, odium, invidia,
cupiditas, spes, ambitus, audacia, metus, cetera generis
eiusdem. accedunt aliquando fortuita, ebrietas,
ignorantia, quae interim ad veniam valent, interim
ad probationem criminis, ut si quis, dum alii insidiatur, alium dicitur interemisse.
1 honestas W. Meyer: has B: haec A,
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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