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You unconscionable Boeotus, do, pray, give up your present
ways; but, if indeed you are unwilling to, do, in Heaven's name, accept advice
in this at least; cease to make trouble for yourself, and cease bringing
malicious and baseless charges against me; and be content that you have gained
citizenship, an estate, a father. No one is trying to dispossess you of these
things; certainly not I. Nay, if, as you claim to be a brother, you also act as
a brother, people will believe that you are of our blood; but if you go on
plotting against me, suing me, evincing malice toward me, slandering me, you
will be thought to have intruded yourself into what belonged to others, and then
to be treating it as though it were not rightly yours.
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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