ei ho megala ten patrida euergetesas di' auto te touto anekesta pathon kai phthonetheis kinduneuseien an etheloutes huper tes patridos e epheteon autoi heautou pote kai ton oikeiotaton poieisthai pronoian aphemenoi tas pros tous ischuontas diapoliteias
whether the man who has greatly benefited his country, and for that very reason suffered irremediable injury and envy, should risk his life willingly for his country, or whether he must at last take thought for himself and his closest, abandoning political battles against the powerful
Source Cicero, Ad Atticum 9.4
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One of Cicero's Stoic-Academic political theses (Ad Att. 9.4).