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other men, Athenians, you may see the best and most respectable ready at the
prompting of nature to do what is right; those who are worse men, but are not
classed as the very bad, are careful of offending, because they are afraid of
you and are sensitive to disgrace and reproach; the utterly wicked, the moral
lepers, as we call them, are said to be taught wisdom only by suffering.
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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