Demosthenes, Exordia, exordium 45, section 3

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[3] For example, “Do not leave a free hand to aggressors”; you see what a fine slogan that is! Do not fail first to take a good look at the actual nature of the task. They must master the foe in battle who are really going to capture the majesty of this saying. For all things are easy to say, men of Athens, but not all are easy to do, for “not so much toil and sweat come before speech as before action.”¹

1 Hes. WD 289-290 “But in front of virtue have the deathless gods set sweat.”

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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