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Answer to Philip’s Letter (13)

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This being so, how is it that they have so long remained loyal to him? Because, men of Athens, at present his prosperity overshadows all such shortcomings, for success has a strange power of obscuring and covering mens failings; but if he trips, all his weakness will be clearly revealed. For it is with the political as with the bodily constitution.

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