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No individual ally is so fond either of us or of the Thebans as to
regard our security and our supremacy in the same light. Secure they would all
have us, for their own sakes; that either nation should gain supremacy and be
their master would suit none of them. What, then, is the danger that I think we
must guard against? Lest the inevitable war should afford all states a common
pretext and a common ground of complaint.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1930.
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