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And here is
a matter that may be particularly surprising. For while other men are assumed to
be mean-spirited because they are gentle and to be arrogant because they are
dignified, and are thought overbearing because they are manly, and stupid
because they keep quiet, Fortune in your case has taken qualities so mutually
contradictory and caused them all to be properly harmonized, as if fulfilling a
prayer or wishing to set an example for others, but not framing a mere mortal
nature, as was her usual way.
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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