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A man, then, who is a
flatterer of those in prosperity, and who betrays these same men if they fall
into adversity; who out of all the host of good and worthy citizens of Athens
deals with not a single one on the basis of equality, but willingly fawns upon
people like Phormio; who takes no thought whether he is going to injure any of
his kinsfolk by these actions, or whether he is going to win an evil reputation
in the minds of other men, but thinks only of one thing, how he may enrich
himself—ought you not to loathe this man as a common enemy of the
whole human race? I certainly think so.
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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