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So when any of you, annoyed
at his outrageous conduct, cries, “To think that he should act like
this, and he a debtor to the treasury!” the reply is, “What!
Is not So-and-so a debtor too?”—each man suggesting his
personal enemy. Thus his wickedness is the cause of the scandals which are
circulated about men who do not resemble 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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