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If conditions were reversed, if there were no
recompense for the virtuous, if evil-doers were to enjoy all the immunity that
Timocrates has sought to enact, what utter confusion would be the natural
result! For you may be quite sure that from these possessions that I have
enumerated, even if they were twice as great as they now are, you would not then
get an atom of advantage. Therefore the defendant is proved to be striving to do
you wrong in respect of that law by which punishments are provided for would-be
criminals.
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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