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You must, then, take the view that
for those of our fellow-citizens who live in the Chersonese the same condition is advantageous, that is, that no
one man shall be all-powerful among the Thracians. In fact the quarrels of the
Thracians, and their jealousy of one another, afford the best and most
trustworthy guarantee of the safety of the Chersonese. Now the decree before us, by offering security to
the minister who controls the affairs of Cersobleptes, and by putting the
commanders of the other kings in imminent fear of being accused of crime, makes
those kings weak, and the king who stands by himself strong.
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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