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“how did it occur to him to wish for the farms of a man who was unknown to him, whom he had never seen in his life?"

“For no man employs a dumb accuser, or calls him as a witness, who rises from the accuser’s bench”

“the most honourable men should not be allowed to give evidence in their own cause.”

“In truth we should not see the crimes of these men so clearly if cupidity, and avarice, and audacity, did not render them blind."

“And by such men as these I wonder that the courts of justice were not burnt, that there might be no trace left of any judicial proceedings;"

“nature of war brings many things to pass without the knowledge of the generals.”

“no one attempts to proceed to crime without some hope of advantage”

“my desire does not lead me, but good faith towards my client"

“I fear that I may be wearisome to you, O judges, or that I may seem to distrust your capacity, if I dwell longer on matters which are so evident"

“not only that Sextus Roscius did nothing of all this, but that he was not even able to do anything,”