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After this, are the jury
to believe that you did it all for their sakes? Are they to make themselves
responsible for your acts of callous wickedness? They ought in justice to detest
you all the more for this rather than protect you. For the man who is acting for
the State ought to imitate the spirit of the State, and you, Athenians, ought to
encourage such men and hate men like the defendant. For though you are probably
aware of it, I must none the less tell you this: whatever sort of men you are
seen to honor and protect, you will be thought to be like them yourselves.
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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