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But if anyone thinks
that all this means great expense and much toil and worry, he is quite correct,
but if he reckons up what will hereafter be the result to Athens if she refuses to act, he will
conclude that it is to our interest to perform our duty willingly. For if you
have the guarantee of some god, since no mere mortal could be a satisfactory
surety for such an event, that if you remain inactive and abandon everything,
Philip will not in the end march against yourselves,
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1930.
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