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More than this, it
seems to me to be absurd that, when a man says anything contrary to law, he
should, if he is convicted, be deprived of one third of his personal
rights,1 while those guilty not of
words but of acts that are illegal should pay no penalty. Surely, men of
Athens, you would all say that
leniency in regard to such offences merely trains up others to commit them.
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