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First of all, men of Athens, it is necessary that you bring about harmony1 among yourselves for the common good of the State and drop all the contentions inherited from previous assemblies and, in the second place, that you all with one mind vigorously support your decisions, since the failure to follow either a uniform policy or to act consistently is not only unworthy of you and ignoble but, in addition, involves the greatest risks.

1 Cicero saturated his mind with the writings of Demosthenes. “Political harmony” will be recognized as his political ideal: Ad Atticum 1. 14. 4; his friend Demitrius of Magnesia wrote on the subject: ibid. 8. 11. 7. The Romans deified this abstraction under the name Concordia

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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