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and in regard
to court decisions it might be claimed that the decision had been rendered
through error; and in all other cases where the law forbids action exception
might plausibly be taken to each one. But when anyone has himself yielded to
argument and given a release, he cannot in the very nature of the case charge
himself with having acted unjustly. Those who bring suit in defiance of any
other of these provisions fail to abide by what others have determined to be
just; but he who again brings suit in matters regarding which he has given a
release fails to abide by his own decision. Therefore, against all such your
anger should be particularly severe.
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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