[22]
Turning now to
courage—for it will not do to omit this either, not because I would
intimate that your character does not still admit of great development nor that
the future will fail to furnish richer material for eulogy to those who wish to
praise you, but rather that words of praise mean most at your age when to do no
wrong is the best hope for other lads—your courage a man might extol
on many other grounds but especially because of your training for athletic
sports, of which you have a multitude of witnesses.
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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