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It
is painful for children to be orphaned of a father. Yes, but it is a beautiful
thing to be the heir of a father's fame. And of this pain we shall find the
deity to be the cause, to whom mortal creatures must yield, but of the glory and
honor the source is found in the choice of those who willed to die
nobly.As for myself, it has not been my
concern how I might make a long speech, but how I might speak the truth. And now
do you, having spent your grief and done your part as law and custom require,
disperse to your homes.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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