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On the other hand, if he has
failed to discern the peril, the more you credit him with good intentions, the
more forethought you should exercise for his sake as well as your own. Honest
friends should not bestow upon their well-wishers such favours as will bring
disaster to both alike, but should rather cooperate in any action that tends to
their common advantage; and when a man is more far-sighted than his friend, he
should order things for the best, and not treat the gratification of the moment
as of more value than all future time.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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