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When a man, then, felt no shame in
deceiving you to whom he had pledged his word, though there are laws which
declare that, if a man deceive the people by a promise, he shall be liable to
impeachment,—when, after swearing and imprecating destruction upon
himself, he had no fear of the gods in whose name he had perjured
himself—was it strange that I was unwilling to allow him to take an
oath? Again, not very long ago, he once more solemnly declared in the assembly
that he had not adequate provision for his old age—he, who possesses
so large an estate; so insatiate and grasping is his character.
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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