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The thing which is the most outstanding and chiefly to be desired by all healthy and… — Cicero

Speech

The thing which is the most outstanding and chiefly to be desired by all healthy and good and well-off persons, is leisure with honor.

In the original Latin

Id quod est praestantissimum maximeque optabile omnibus sanis et bonis et beatis, cum dignitate otium.

Cicero
Pro Sestio · 56 BC
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56 BCClassical antiquity
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Cicero
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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Pro Sestio [In Defense of Publius Sestio]. c. 56 BC, Rome, Italy.

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