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Sections

1.1 – 1.2 1.3 – 1.5 2.1 – 2.3 2.4 – 2.6 3.1 – 3.2 3.3 – 3.5 3.6 – 4.1 4.2 – 5.1 5.2 – 5.3 6.1 – 6.3 6.4 – 7.3 8.1 – 8.1 8.2 – 9.1 9.2 – 9.3 9.4 – 10.1 10.2 – 11.2 11.3 – 12.1 12.2 – 12.5 13.1 – 13.2 13.3 – 14.2 14.3 – 15.1 15.2 – 15.4 16.1 – 16.2 16.3 – 16.5 16.6 – 17.2 17.3 – 17.5 18.1 – 18.2 18.3 – 18.5 19.1 – 19.2 19.3 – 19.5 20.1 – 20.2 20.3 – 21.1 21.2 – 21.3 21.4 – 21.6 22.1 – 22.4 22.5 – 23.2 23.3 – 24.1 24.2 – 25.1 25.2 – 25.3 25.4 – 25.5 26.1 – 26.2 26.3 – 27.1 27.2 – 27.5 27.6 – 28.3 28.3 – 28.5 29.1 – 29.2 29.3 – 30.1 30.2 – 30.4 30.5 – 31.1 31.2 – 31.4 31.5 – 32.2 32.3 – 32.4 32.5 – 33.1 33.2 – 33.4 34.1 – 34.3 34.4 – 35.2 35.3 – 35.5 36.1 – 36.3 37.1 – 37.2 37.3 – 37.4 37.5 – 38.2 38.3 – 39.2 39.3 – 40.1 40.2 – 41.1 41.2 – 41.4 41.5 – 42.2 42.3 – 42.5 43.1 – 43.3 43.4 – 43.6 44.1 – 44.3 44.4 – 44.6 44.7 – 44.8 45.1 – 45.3 45.4 – 46.2 46.3 – 46.5 47.1 – 47.2 47.3 – 48.2 48.3 – 48.4 48.5 – 49.1 49.2 – 49.4 50.1 – 50.3 51.1 – 51.3 51.4 – 52.1 52.2 – 52.3 52.4 – 52.5 53.1 – 53.3 53.3 – 54.2 54.3 – 54.5 54.6 – 55.2 55.2 – 56.1 56.2 – 56.3 56.4 – 57.1 57.2 – 58.1 58.2 – 58.4 58.5 – 58.7 59.1 – 59.2 59.3 – 59.5 59.6 – 60.1 60.2 – 61.1 61.2 – 61.4 62.1 – 62.4 63.1 – 63.4 63.5 – 64.2 64.2 – 64.4 64.5 – 65.2 65.3 – 65.4 65.5 – 66.2 66.3 – 66.4 67.1 – 67.2 68.1 – 68.3 68.4 – 69.1 69.2 – 70.2 70.3 – 70.5 70.6 – 71.2 72.1 – 73.1 73.2 – 73.4

İngilizce Yunanca

44.7 But these, after admiring and praising Cato’s uprightness, cancelled the penalty, feeling that they already had sufficient satisfaction from the wrong-doer. In the rest of the citizens, however, this conduct of Cato caused more vexation and odium than anything else; they felt that he was investing himself with the powers of senate, courts and magistrates.

44.7 For no virtue, by the fame and credit which it gives, creates more envy than justice, because both power and credit follow it chiefly among the common folk.

44.8 These do not merely honour the just, as they do the brave, nor admire them merely, as they do the wise, but they actually love the just, and put confidence and trust in them. As for the brave and wise, however, they fear the one and distrust the other; and besides, they think that these excel by a natural gift rather than by their own volition, considering bravery to be a certain intensity, and wisdom a certain vigour, of soul, whereas any one who wishes can be just forthwith, and the greatest disgrace is visited upon injustice, as being inexcusable baseness.