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for well I knew that indolent
people lose for ever anything that they let slip in the transition from war to
peace. No one, who has been induced by general considerations to sheathe the
sword, is ever inclined to begin war over again for the recovery of his losses;
and so the appropriator retains possession. Apart from these considerations, I
conceived that, if we sailed at once, the city would gain one of two advantages.
For when we were on the spot and had accepted his oath according to the decree,
either he would restore the places he had taken from Athens and keep his hands off the rest,
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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