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If you accept the oath, you may say that
you have confidence in yourself, but not in your opponent, and, reversing the
apophthegm of Xenophanes, that the only fair way is that the impious man should
tender the oath and the pious man take it; and that it would be monstrous to
refuse to take the oath yourself, while demanding that the judges should take it
before giving their verdict.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 22, translated by J. H. Freese. Aristotle. Cambridge and London. Harvard University Press; William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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