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And do not imagine,
Athenians, that I am debating the point with you, as if you were debtors to the
treasury. That is not so, and I hope it never may be; it is no idea of mine. But
if any of you has a friend or acquaintance among the debtors, I propose to show
you that for that friend's sake he ought to hate the defendant.My first reason is that honest folk, who are hampered by
security for others and kind offices and private debts involving no wrong to the
State, but who happen to have been unlucky, are placed by him in the same
infamous category as himself, contrary to what is right and fitting.
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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