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For if
we should grant the truth of what would be your best possible answer, that you
do all this for love of glory and renown, I wonder what earthly reason you have
for thinking that you yourself ought for that object to make every exertion,
facing toil and danger, whereas you advise the State to abandon such efforts in
sheer indifference. For this you cannot say—that it is your duty to
make a figure in the State, but that the State is of no importance in the Greek
world.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1930.
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