63 BC

Cic. Cat. 1.25

Catilinarian Orations 1.25

Author
Cicero
Translator
C. D. Yonge

Catilinarian Orations

1.25

Cicero

translated by C. D. Yonge

25X. You will go at last where your unbridled and mad desire has been long hurrying you. And this causes you no grief, but an incredible pleasure. Nature has formed you, desire has trained you, fortune has preserved you for this insanity. Not only did you never desire quiet, but you never even desired any war but a criminal one; you have collected a band of profligates and worthless men, abandoned not only by all fortune but even by hope.