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He knows, then, that they both will
pursue their private interests, irrespective of the common advantage of the
Greeks. So he thought that if he chose you, he would be choosing friends, and
that your friendship would be based on justice; but that if he attached himself
to the others, he would find in them the tools of his own ambition. That is why,
now as then, he chooses them rather than you. For surely it is not that he
regards their fleets as superior to ours, nor that, having discovered some
inland empire, he has abandoned the seaboard with its harbors, nor yet that he
has a short memory for the speeches and the promises that gained for him the
Peace.1
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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