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For indeed Philip by all that might be
deemed to constitute his greatness, by his wars and his campaigns, has only
reduced his country below its natural level of insecurity. You must not imagine,
men of Athens, that his subjects
share his tastes. No: glory is his sole object and ambition; in action and in
danger he has elected to suffer whatever may befall him putting before a life of
safety the distinction of achieving what no other king of Macedonia ever achieved.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1930.
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