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Now those who thus use the privilege of advising you
seem to me to look upon the reputation for eloquence accruing to them from their speeches
as an adequate ambition, but it is my opinion that the man who proposes to advise the
State on matters of policy should rather consider how the measures adopted shall prove of
benefit, and not how his remarks of the moment may find favour. For those who win esteem
by their words ought to add to it the accomplishment of some useful work in order that not
only now, but for all time, their utterances may have merit.
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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