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You need not tell us that peace is a
lovely and profitable thing; for nobody blames you because the city concluded
peace. Deny, if you can, that the peace we have is a disgraceful and ignominious
peace; deny that after its conclusion we were deceived, and that by that
deception all was lost. The blame for all these calamities has been brought home
to you. Why do you still speak the praises of the man who inflicted
them?” Keep guard over his tricks in that fashion, and he will have
nothing to say. He will only aggravate the thunders of his voice, and exhaust
himself with his own vociferation.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by C. A. Vince, M. A. and J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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