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The only course left is for us to go into
court. So the city will order a court to be set up for each of the cases; and we
shall be cheated of the fair and equal right, that the one chosen by lot shall
hold office. Then we shall berate each other, and he who shall prevail by his
words will hold office. And in which case should we be better off—by
trying to rid ourselves of our existing resentments, or by arousing fresh
animosities and recriminations? For these must of necessity result, when we
wrangle with one another about an office or anything else.
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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