To wound one's body is a trifle; to wound one's life, one's character, one's safety, like this, is a more serious business. [48] If you had discharged your household, a matter which would have concerned no one but yourself, your friends would have thought that you required to be put under restraint; could you have disbanded the protection of the republic, the garrison of the province, without the orders of the Roman senate or people, if you had been in your sound senses? [cap.21]