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Nay, on the contrary, I do foresee
the utmost danger, to you from your bustling and meddling, but to the State from
its inactivity. But you may say that you have the honour of your grandfather and
father to uphold, and it would be scandalous to subvert it in your person, but
that the State has inherited only nameless and paltry exploits from our
ancestors. But that too is untrue; for you had a thief for your father, if he
was like you, but our fathers, as all the Greeks know, preserved them from the
deadliest perils.
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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