Demosthenes, Letters, Concerning the Sons of Lycurgus, section 28

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[28] In short, it is a reproach common to all citizens, men of Athens, and a misfortune of the State as a whole, that envy should be thought to be stronger among you than the grace of gratitude for services performed, and the more so because envy is a disease but the Graces¹ have been assigned a place among the gods.

1 A verbal play on χάριτες, “feelings of gratitude” or “Graces.”

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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