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“Quid enim foedius auaritia, quid immanius libidine, quid contemptius timiditate, quid abiectius tarditate et stultitia dici potest?”

— Cicero

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Wikiquote: Cicero
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For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly?

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Cicero. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Cicero. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cicero

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