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For if anyone,
Athenians, disregarding what will benefit the State, traffics in trials,
confiscations, bribes, and indictments, he shows in this no true bravery, but,
ensuring his own safety by the popularity of his speeches and measures, he is
bold without risk. But whoever in your best interests often opposes your wishes,
and never speaks to win favor, but always gives you of his best, and makes
choice of that policy which is more under the dominion of chance than of
calculation, and yet accepts the responsibility of either, he is the brave man.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1930.
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