Qui interrogatus quam ob rem inter multos ipse statuam non haberet, Malo inquit ambigere bonos, quam ob rem id non meruerim, quam (quod est gravius) cur impetraverim mussitare.
For when he was asked why he alone among many did not have a statue, he replied: I would rather that good men should wonder why I did not deserve one than (which is much worse) should mutter Why was he given one?
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