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Here is a man who is going to inherit
disfranchisement, if anything happens to his father, and yet does not think
proper to pay the debt, but prefers to pocket the profit of his meanness so long
as his father lives. Is such a man likely to keep his hands off
anything?—For your own father you have no compassion; you do not think
him ill-used because, while you are getting your pickings and making your
profits out of the taxes you used to collect, out of the decrees you move, out
of the laws you introduce, he is losing his citizen-rights for lack of a
trifling sum of money. And yet you call yourself a compassionate man!
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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