V. Life, however, and the comfortable enjoyment of it, are constituted by legal marriages, lawful children; the keeping hallowed the seats of the penate gods, and the domestic lares; that all may enjoy public and private comforts. Without good government, private life cannot be agreeable, nor can any one be more happy than in a well regulated state * * * * ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES 1. Corrected items noted in the Errata. 2. Silently corrected typographical errors in the Preface, Introduction, and footnotes. 3. Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed in the Preface, Introduction, and footnotes. 4. Did not alter punctuation or spellings in the Translation with the exception of joining words split by pages. 5. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_. End of Project Gutenberg's The republic of Cicero, by Marcus Tullius Cicero