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This,
Athenians, is the sum of all that I have said. Your orators never make you
either bad men or good, but you make them whichever you choose; for it is not
you that aim at what they wish for, but they who aim at whatever they think you
desire. You therefore must start with a noble ambition and all will be well, for
then no orator will give you base counsel, or else he will gain nothing by it,
having no one to take him at his word.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by C. A. Vince, M. A. and J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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