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Now everyone would admit, I think, that our laws have been the source of very many and very great benefits to the life of humanity.1 But our enjoyment of these laws is a boon which, in the very nature of the case, is limited to the affairs of our state and to the engagements which you enter into with each other; whereas, if you would heed my words, you might direct the whole of Hellas with honor and justice and, at the same time, with advantage to Athens.
1 Cf. Isoc. 4.39-40.