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When some one recognized him and asked,
‘Can you not trust your country, Alcibiades?’
‘In all else,’ he said,
‘but in the matter of life I wouldn't trust even my own mother not to mistake a black for a white ballot when she cast her vote.’ And when he afterwards heard that the city had condemned him to death,
‘I'll show them,’ he said,
‘that I'm alive.’
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1916. 4.
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