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Moreover, if
we proclaim this policy, there is none but will be glad that the Thebans should
cease to hold other people's territory; if we do not, we shall not only find the
Thebans, naturally enough, hostile to the other proposal, as soon as they
reflect that the restoration of those cities means ruin to themselves, but we
shall also involve ourselves in endless trouble; for what limit indeed can there
be, if we are always sanctioning the destruction of existing cities, and
demanding the restoration of those that are destroyed?
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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