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I should have
been glad, myself, to see you happy at putting into effect the measures going to profit
you, that I might have been found both meeting your wishes and giving good advice. But
since I see you about to try the opposite measures, I think I ought to speak against them,
even if I shall be hated for it by certain persons. So, if you will not endure to hear
even one word from me, you will be thought to be preferring such a course of action, not
through an error of judgement, but through your natural propensity to do wrong. However,
if you do listen, you may perhaps be won over to the other view, which I think would be
most to your advantage. But if you refuse to listen, some will plead ignorance of what was
advantageous, while others—well, what a man likes to say he will say.
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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