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And none of those who are now
making such an outcry declared that by these actions the laws were being nullified. Quite
rightly so, for they were not being nullified, if it be true that all our laws are enacted
for the sake of just men and for the preservation of honest men, and that it is expedient
neither to render the calamities of the unfortunate perpetual nor for men to show
themselves void of gratitude.
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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