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How is this? Ought not the petitioner to speak first, and the conqueror to listen in silence?

More from Lucius Cornelius Sulla

  1. I forgive the many for the sake of the few, the living for the dead.
  2. No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full.
  3. No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy.

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