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I think this eminent and unprecedented kindness of yours, O Romans, of great weight as a
reward for my courage, and as a source of joy to me, but still more calculated to impress me
with care and anxiety. For, O Romans, many and grave thoughts occupy my mind, which allow me
but little rest day or night. First, there is anxiety about discharging the duties of the
consulship which is a difficult and important business to all men, and especially to me above
all other men; for if I err, I shall obtain no pardon—if I do well, I shall get but
little praise, and that, too, extorted from unwilling people—if I am in doubt, I
have no faithful counselors to whom I can apply—if I am in difficulty, I have no
sure assistance from the nobles on which I can depend.
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