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For not the receipt of a flatterer's pay with its taint of shame,
but to be honored, where speech is free, as one who is deemed
worthy—that is true glory; and to enjoy the willing admiration of
equals seems better than to accept the richest gift from a tyrant's hand. For in
those communities the fear of tomorrow outweighs the favor of today, but in your
city a man could keep what he won without fear of loss, at any rate in time
past.
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