[10] For we must take account not only of loss of money, but of loss of good fame, which you are more anxious to keep than your money—yes, you and your ancestors also. The proof of this is that when they had accumulated vast sums, they spent all for honor, and when reputation was at stake, they never shrank from danger, but even lavished their private fortunes without stint.
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As it stands, then, this law reflects on your city not honor but disgrace, unworthy alike of your ancestors and of yourselves; for
Athens
is incurring the three worst reproaches—that men should think us envious, faithless, ungrateful.
Against Leptines. Demosthenes. James Herbert Vince (Translator). London. 1930.
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