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Such was the answer of the Melians; the Athenians, as they quitted the conference, spoke as1 follows:—' Well, we must say, judging from the decision at which you have arrived, that you are the only men who deem the future to be more certain than the present, and regard things unseen as already realized in your fond anticipation, and that the more you cast yourselves upon the Lacedaemonians and fortune and hope, and trust them, the more complete will be your ruin.'
1 Last words of the Athenians.
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