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And this is not due to a single cause,
Athenians, or you might easily remedy it, but to many errors of every kind
throughout the past. Without enumerating these, I will mention one on which all
the rest turn, only beseeching you not to be offended with me, if I speak the
truth boldly. It is the selling of your interests at every opportunity; your
share in the bargain is leisure and inaction, which charm you out of your
resentment against your betrayers, but others reap the rewards.
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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