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You could not name a single one; but while
lending money at interest and regarding the misfortunes and necessities of
others as your own good fortune, you ejected your own uncle Nicias from the
house of his fathers, you have taken from your own mother-in-law the resources
upon which she lived, and you have, in so far as it depended upon you, rendered
homeless the son of Archedemus. No one ever exacted payment from a defaulter as
rigorously as you exact interest from your debtors. A man, then, whom you find
to be so brutal and so savage on all occasions, are you going to fail to punish
him when you have caught him in the very act of wrongdoing? In that case, men of
the jury, you will do what is an outrage and in no sense right.
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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