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and that the high-minded should
not follow their foolish example, bearing in mind particularly that, since
actions are not absolutely either honorable or shameful but for most part vary
according to the persons concerned,1 it is unreasonable to adopt the same attitude toward
both classes of men, and secondly, that it is the height of absurdity to envy
those who have a host of firm friends but to repulse their admirers, who are a
separate group and alone feel drawn by nature, not toward all, but only to the
beautiful and modest.
1 The same distinction is made in synonymous terms, Isoc. 6.60.
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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