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that a democracy is the most unstable and capricious
thing in the world, like a restless wave of the sea ruffled by the breeze as
chance will have it. One man comes, another goes; no one attends to, or even
remembers, the common weal. Philip, they said, ought to have friends at
Athens, who would manage his
business for him as it arose, and carry it through—the person
speaking, for example; if that provision were made, he would easily accomplish
here whatever he desired.
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