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other points also he has arguments admirably calculated to deceive you, and it
is better that you should be told of them beforehand. One of them runs like
this: “Do not steal the reward from five hundred of yourselves, nor
involve them in disgrace; they are on their trial, not I.” But, had
you been going to deprive them of something without otherwise benefiting the
State, I should not have asked you to show any great keenness in the matter; but
if by this action you are going to convert more than ten thousand others into
better citizens, what a far finer thing it is to make so many men honest than to
confer an unjust favour on five hundred.
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