It should be the
duty of all speakers, men of Athens,
to give no expression to their hatred or their partiality, but to put forward
just what each thinks the best counsel, especially when you are debating a
question of urgent public importance. But since there are speakers who are
impelled to address you, either as partisans or from some other motive, whatever
it may be, you citizens who form the majority ought to dismiss all else from
your minds, and vote and act in such a way as you think will best serve our
city.
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