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What help,
then, remains for him, Athenians? The help, I suppose, that comes to all
defendants alike from the natural temper of the jury, the help that no man on
his trial provides for himself, but that each of you brings with him from home
to the court—I mean pity, pardon, benevolence. But of such help
religion and justice alike demand that this unclean wretch should receive no
share. Why? Because whatever law each man's nature prompts him to apply to his
neighbors, that law it is only fair that they should apply to him.
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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