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Accordingly, I
shall leave this topic and now endeavor to counsel you on the means of rendering
your life still more worthy of esteem. To the words I am about to utter I would
not have you give heed as to a matter of trivial importance, nor to leap to the
conclusion that I have, after all, addressed you thus, not for your good, but
from a desire to display my skill; otherwise you may miss the truth and, by
choosing haphazard counsel in place of the best, fall short of the best in
judging your own interests.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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