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And that is just how you, men
of Athens, live in this community on
humane and brotherly principles, one class watching the proceedings of the
unfortunate in such a way that, as the saying runs, “seeing, they see
not; hearing, do not hear”; while the others by their behavior show
that they are both on their guard and alive to a sense of shame. Hence it is
that that general harmony, which is the source of all our blessings, is firmly
established in our city.
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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