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But the rest of the Sicilians have found an avenger of their
injuries; you, while you are endeavouring to exact vengeance for your injuries by your
own means, (which you will not be able to effect,) are acting in a way to leave the
injuries of all the rest unpunished and unavenged. And you do not see that it ought not
alone to be considered who is a proper person to exact vengeance, but also who is a
person capable of doing so,—that if there be a man in whom both these
qualifications exist, he is the best man.
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