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For if he has trained up his sons in such
fashion that they feel no fear or shame while committing in his presence crimes
for some of which the punishment of death is ordained, what punishment do you
think too severe for him? I think these actions are a proof that he has no
reverence for his own father; for if he had honored and feared him, he would
have exacted honor and fear from his own children.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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