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but only reply that my policy
has never been the policy of these men; that though I could, perhaps as well as
the rest, accuse and bribe and confiscate and act in general as they are acting,
I have never applied myself to any of these arts nor obeyed the promptings of
greed or ambition, but continue to offer advice which does indeed lower me in
your esteem, but which, if you will follow it, would contribute to your
greatness. So much perhaps I may say of myself without offence.
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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