QuoteQuest“since our leading men think themselves in a seventh heaven, if there are bearded mullets in their fish-ponds that will come to hand for food, and neglect everything else, do not you think that I am doing no mean service if I secure that those who have the power, should not have the will, to do any harm?”
— Cicero
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- Wikiquote: Cicero
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Context
Letters to Atticus, Book II, 1.
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