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It is impossible, men of
Athens, impossible to gain
permanent power by injustice, perjury, and falsehood. Once in a way and for a
brief season such things endure, and fed with hopes make, it may be, a brave
show of blossom, but at the last they are detected and fall to pieces. For a
house, I take it, or a ship or anything of that sort must have its chief
strength in its substructure; and so too in affairs of state the principles and
the foundations must be truth and justice. There is no vestige of these today in
the power that Philip has built up.
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