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Surely,
then, to admonish such a fellow is madness. A man who never yielded or shrank
before the storm of protest with which the whole Assembly admonishes those who
offend it, would readily heed the protest of an individual! His case is
incurable, men of Athens, quite
incurable. Just as physicians, when they detect a cancer or an ulcer or some
other incurable growth, cauterize it or cut it away, so you ought all to unite
in exterminating this monster. Cast him out of your city; destroy him. Take your
precautions in time and do not wait for the evil consequences, which I pray may
never fall either on individuals or on the community.
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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