# Letters to his brother Quintus 1.1.39

Cicero, Letters to his brother Quintus, urn:cts:latinLit:phi0474.phi058.perseus-lat1, Book 1, Letter 1. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/cicero/letters-to-his-brother-quintus/1.1.39

atque in hoc genere multo te esse iam commodiorem mitioremque nuntiant. nullae tuae vehementiores animi concitationes, nulla maledicta ad nos, nullae contumeliae perferuntur, quae cum abhorrent a litteris, ab humanitate, tum vero contraria sunt imperio ac dignitati ; nam si implacabiles iracundiae sunt, summa est acerbitas, sin autem exorabiles, summa levitas, quae tamen ut in malis acerbitati anteponenda est.

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Cicero, Letters to his brother Quintus, ed. Louis Claude Purser. Text: the Perseus Digital Library, canonical-latinLit, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
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