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That,
gentlemen of the jury, is how he has treated everyone that comes across his
path. I have omitted other instances, for no one could compress into a single
narrative the violent acts that he has spent a lifetime in committing. But it is
worth while noticing to what a height of audacity he has advanced in consequence
of his never having been punished for any of these acts. He seems to have
thought that no act that one man can commit against an individual was brilliant
or dashing enough or worth risking his life for, and unless he could affront a
whole tribe or the Council or some class of citizens and harass vast multitudes
of you at once, he felt that life was really not worth living.1
1 “He that kills me some six or seven dozen of Scots at a breakfast, washes his hands, and says to his wife 'Fie upon this quiet life! I want work.'” （Shakespeare,Hen. 4. Pt. 1. 2. 4. 115）.
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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