[17]
Arrived at manhood they rendered their
innate nobility known, not only to their fellow-citizens, but to all men. For of
all virtue, I say, and I repeat it, the beginning is understanding and the
fulfillment is courage; by the one it is judged what ought to be done and by the
other this is carried to success.1 In both these
qualities these men were distinctly superior;
1 Kennedy cites Cicero Pro Sestio 40.86 “hoc sentire prudentiae est, facere fortitudinis.”
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.
The Annenberg CPB/Project provided support for entering this text.
Purchase a copy of this text (not necessarily the same edition) from Amazon.com
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.