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Men of Athens, it is not because he wants to do a traitor a good turn
that a man spends his money; nor, when he has once got what he paid for, has he
any further use for the traitor's counsels. Otherwise treason would be the most
profitable of all trades. But it is not so. How could it be? Far from it! As
soon as the man who grasps at power has achieved his purpose, he is the master
of those who sold him his mastery; and then—yes,
then!—knowing their baseness, he loathes them, mistrusts them, and
reviles them.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by C. A. Vince, M. A. and J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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