And so when you see a man often wearing the robe of office, when you see one whose name is famous in the forum, do not envy him; those things are bought at the price of life. They will waste their years, in order that they may have their name recognised. Life has left some in the middle of their first struggles, before they could ever climb up to the height of their ambition; some, when they have crawled through a thousand indignities to the crowning dignity, have been possessed by the unhappy thought that they have but toiled for an inscription on a tomb; some who have come to extreme old
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