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My own judgement is not different from Solon's and I
recommend to you to study philosophy, bearing in mind the advantages you have
possessed from the beginning. Indeed it was with this purpose in view I ran
through the list of them myself in the first part of my essay,1 not
expecting to make a conquest of you by praising your natural gifts, but that I
may the better urge you to take up philosophy if you shall escape the error of
putting a low value on it, or, through pride in your present advantages, of
under-valuing the advantages yet to be gained.
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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