Demosthenes, the orator, said to him, ‘The Athenians will put you to death if they go mad.’ ‘Yes,’ he replied, ‘me if they go mad, but you if they keep their senses,’ 1 [p. 111]
1 Ibid. chap. ix. (745 F). In Moralia, 811 A, Demades is substituted for Demosthenes.
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
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