He was so much more sincere than others that the protest is needed.

If a man stand but five feet eleven inches in his shoes, shall he be called a pygmy?
And yet to declare that he measures full six feet would be untrue.
Cicero was a busybody.

Were there anything to do, he wished to do it, let it be what it might.

"Cedant arma togae." If anything was written on his heart, it was that.

Yet he loved the idea of leading an army, and panted for a military triumph.