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That it is entirely the act of insane men
to compose such decrees, or to bestow such favours as this, may easily be
learned from many examples. I am sure, men of Athens, that you all know as well as I do that you once
admitted Cotys over yonder to your citizenship, evidently because you regarded
him at the time as a sincere well-wisher. Indeed, you decorated him with golden
crowns; and you would never have done that, if you had thought him your enemy.
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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