As you go down daily to the Forum, turn the answer to this in your mind: 'Novus sum; consulatum peto; Roma est'-- 'I am a man of an untried family.

It is the Consulship that I seek.

It is Rome in which I seek it.'" Though the condition of Rome was bad, still to him the Republic was the greatest thing in the world, and to be Consul in that Republic the highest honor which the world could give.
There is nobility in that, but there is very much that is ignoble in the means of canvassing which are advocated.

I cannot say that they are as yet too ignoble for our modern use here in England, but they are too ignoble to be acknowledged by our candidates themselves, or by their brothers on their behalf.

Cicero, not having progressed far enough in modern civilization to have studied the beauty of truth, is held to be false and hypocritical.