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[Whose insolence then will be checked, and who will be deprived of
the wealth that makes such outrages possible, if you are prepared to pity
Meidias as though he were an innocent victim, while, if a poor man, who has done
no wrong, has through him become unjustly involved in utmost ruin, you fail even
to share in his indignation? It must not be. No one deserves pity who shows no
pity; no one deserves pardon who grants no pardon.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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