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This being so, how is it
that they have so long remained loyal to him? Because, men of Athens, at present his prosperity
overshadows all such shortcomings, for success has a strange power of obscuring
and covering men's failings; but if he trips, all his weakness will be clearly
revealed. For it is with the political as with the bodily constitution.
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