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For example, to make clear to you my purpose in saying this, when that man
Pytho, having just killed Cotys,
did not think it safe to take his chance of a place of refuge, he came to you,
applied for your citizenship, and thought you the finest people in the world.
But now that he thinks relations with Philip more advantageous to him, he takes
Philip's side, without the slightest regard for you. No, men of Athens; when men give their lives to the
pursuit of their own ambitions, I say that there is no stability and no honesty
to be found in them. Every sensible man must get the better of such people by
wary conduct: he should not begin by trusting and end by denouncing them.
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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