And how is it fair that a man who never had any property should take possession of lands that had been occupied for many years or even generations, and that he who had them before should lose possession of them?
Cicero rhetorically questions the fairness of policies that redistribute property, particularly when they dispossess long-term owners in favor of those who previously had nothing.
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