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“Those who commit private theft pass their lives in confinement and fetters; plunderers of the public, in gold and purple.”

— Cato the Elder

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Wikiquote: Cato the Elder
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Elder, Cato the. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Cato the Elder. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cato_the_Elder

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