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And so indeed have ours, to some
extent. But as to those other resources, of policy and of
alliance,—and it is by them that all nations hold advantages for
themselves or for stronger states—in our case, bartered away by these
men, they have perished, or at least deteriorated: his are now formidable and
far greater. It is surely unfair that, while Philip, thanks to these men, enjoys
extended alliances and increased revenues, the advantages that we should in any
case have gained from the peace should be reckoned by them as a set-off against
those that they have sold. For our gains are not a compensation for our losses;
far from it! No; what we now have would equally have been ours, and what we have
not would have been added to us, but for these men.
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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