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Quotation from First Oration Against Catiline by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“for you are not, O Catiline, one whom either shame can recall from infamy, or fear from danger, or reason from madness.”

Marcus Tullius Cicero (spoken by Cicero)

First Oration Against Catiline, Section 22, trans. C. D. Yonge (1856)

Portrait of Marcus Tullius Cicero

A triple antithesis summing up why Cicero expects no reform from Catiline.

Citation: "for you are not, O Catiline, one whom either shame can recall from infamy, or fear from danger, or reason from madness." — Marcus Tullius Cicero, First Oration Against Catiline, Section 22, trans. C. D. Yonge (1856). (id cicero-first-catilinarian-q7)

Portrait: Cicerone denuncia CatilinaCicero Denounces Catiline, Cesare Maccari, Public domain.

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