“I have always been of the opinion that infamy earned by doing what is right is not infamy at all, but glory.”

—  Marcus Tullius Cicero

Speech I
In Catilinam I – Against Catiline (63 B.C)

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Quodsi ea mihi maxime inpenderet tamen hoc animo fui semper, ut invidiam virtute partam gloriam, non invidiam putarem.

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