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Furthermore, if he
had not already deceived you by using these same arguments, when he was on trial
at the earlier information, even so it would not be just to make any concession
contrary to the existing laws; for you must not allow some persons to break the
law and insist on the rest obeying it. Yet just possibly it might then have been
more reasonable to trust him and grant him privileges and sacrifice some of
these principles.
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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