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There are some among you, Athenians, who are very clever at pleading
the rights of others against you, and I would just give them this piece of
advice—to find something to say for your rights against others, so
that they themselves may set the example of doing what is proper; since it is
absurd for a man to lecture you about rights when he is not doing what is right
himself, and it is not right that a citizen should have given his attention to
all the arguments against you and to none in your favour.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by C. A. Vince, M. A. and J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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