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Because you are indifferent to these advantages and
allow them to be taken from you, Philip is prosperous and powerful and
formidable to Greeks and barbarians alike, while you are deserted and
humiliated, famous for your well-stocked markets, but in provision for your
proper needs, contemptible. Yet I observe that some of our speakers do not urge
the same policy for you as for themselves; for you, they say, ought to remain
quiet even when you are wronged; they themselves cannot remain quiet among you,
though no man does them wrong.1
1 They want you to remain passive, though they themselves lead an active political life, in Philip's interests. See the expansion of this passage in Dem. 10.70-74.
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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