For a ruler ought to be one who can perfect this, which is the best and most important employment among mankind." And works in your literature rightly praise that ruler of a country who consults the welfare of his people more than their inclinations.
VII.

Tully, in those books which he wrote upon the Commonwealth, could not conceal his opinions, when he speaks of appointing a chief of the State, who, he says, must be maintained by glory; and afterward he relates that his ancestors did many admirable and noble actions from a desire of glory.
Tully, in his treatise on the Commonwealth, wrote that the chief of a state must be maintained by glory, and that a commonwealth would last as long as honor was paid by every one to the chief.
[_The next paragraph is unintelligible._] Which virtue is called fortitude, which consists of magnanimity, and a great contempt of death and pain.
VIII.

As Marcellus was fierce, and eager to fight, Maximus prudent and cautious.
Who discovered his violence and unbridled ferocity.
Which has often happened not only to individuals, but also to most powerful nations.
In the whole world.
Because he inflicted the annoyances of his old age on your families.
IX.

Cicero, in his treatise on the Commonwealth, says, "As Menelaus of Lacedaemon had a certain agreeable sweetness of eloquence." And in another place he says, "Let him cultivate brevity in speaking." By the evidence of which arts, as Tully says, it is a shame for the conscience of the judge to be misled.

For he says, "And as nothing in a commonwealth ought to be so uncorrupt as a suffrage and a sentence, I do not see why the man who perverts them by money is worthy of punishment, while he who does so by eloquence is even praised.