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Answer to Philip’s Letter (15)

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Now if any of you, Athenians, seeing Philips good fortune, considers him a formidable and dangerous opponent, he is exercising a prudent forethought. For fortune is indeed a great weight in the scale; I might almost say it is everything in human affairs. And yet in many respects our good fortune is to be preferred to Philips.

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