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I admit it and I maintain that it is an honorable and
expedient course to have taken. For it is better to shun the cloud as it
approaches than to be swept away in the rush of the flood. I ask, Athenians,
that the grief occasioned by events shall not engender in you any bitterness
against me. For I have no mastery over Fortune; it is Fortune which controls
life and gives it its danger. The counsellor, like the doctor, must not take
blame for the disease; he must be thanked for the cure.
Demades. Minor Attic Orators in two volumes, 2, with an English translation by J. O. Burtt, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1962.
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