FRAGMENTS.
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Cicero, Marcus Tullius and Yonge, Charles Duke
XLVIII. As our country is the source of the greatest benefits, and is a parent dearer than those who have given us life, we owe her still warmer gratitude than belongs to our human relations. * * *
Nor would Carthage have continued to flourish during six centuries without wisdom and good institutions. * * *
In truth, says Cicero, although the reasonings of those men may contain most abundant fountains of science and virtue; still, if we compare them with the achievements and complete actions of statesmen, they will seem not to have been of so much service in the actual business of men as of amusement for their leisure.