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Each man has other motives, of more
importance to him, and thereby you are often led astray,—compassion,
jealousy, resentment, good nature, and a thousand more. For even though a man
escape every other danger, he can never wholly escape those who do not want such
a person as he is to exist. But, little by little, by accumulation of these
errors the foundation is sapped, and the integrity of public life collapses.
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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