"Let us, O conscript fathers, think as highly of ourselves as we please; and yet
it is not in numbers that we are superior to the Spaniards, nor in personal
strength to the Gauls, nor in cunning to the Carthaginians, nor in arts to the
Greeks, nor in the natural acuteness which seems to be implanted in the people
of this land and country, to the Italian and Latin tribes; but it is in and by
means of piety and religion, and this especial wisdom of perceiving that all
things are governed and managed by the divine power of the Immortal Gods, that
we have been and are superior to all other countries and nations."
Cicero De Haruspicum Responso, n. 19
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