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What was the reason? In the first place, men of Athens, I imagined that a great many men
glibly telling lies about him would overpower one man, namely myself, telling
the truth alone. Then as for the favours that he won by misleading you, I
solemnly protest that it never entered my head to grudge him any one of them. I
could not see that you would buffer any very grievous calamity, if you forgave a
man who had done you much wrong, and so encouraged him to do you good service in
future. Both these considerations applied to the grant of citizenship and to the
grant of a crown.
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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