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but because I observed that, while gaining some renown, you were also
glad to have an education, and that too in the school of Plato, the one that really has
nothing to do with getting the better of people and the quackeries1 that concern themselves with this, but
has been demonstrated to aim at the highest excellence and perfect justice in all things.
By the gods I swear that it is impious for a man who has shared in this instruction not to
be free from all deception and honest in all dealings.
1 The reference is to the sophists, professional teachers who undertook to prepare their pupils for worldly success.
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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