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Do you, then, who
perform acts like these, and who have given such manifest proofs of your
outrageous conduct, dare to scrutinize the manner of life of anyone else? By day
you act soberly, but the whole night long you indulge in actions for which death
is the penalty. He is a knave, men of Athens, a knave and a villain, and has
been such from of old, ever since he left the temple of Castor and Pollux.1 Here is the proof. If he had been honest, he would have managed
his master's business, and remained poor. But as it is, having got control of so
large an amount of money that he could steal from it all that he now possesses
without detection, he regards what he holds, not as a debt, but as an inherited
patrimony.
1 This was one of the places where slaves were sold.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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