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Another Athenian said, that the Lacedemonians spoil’d themselves in Foreign Countries: True, answer’d a Lacedemonian, but no Body spoils himself in Lacedemon.
165
Un autre Athenien disoit que les Lacedemoniens se corrompoient dans les Païs étrangers: Il est vray, répondit un Lacedemonien, mais personne ne se corrompt à Lacedemone.
166
Phocion used sharply to rebuke the Athenians, whereas the Orator Demostthenes flatter’d them in his Speeches: This People will murder thee, if ever they grow furious, said Demosthenes to Phocion; So they will thee, if ever they grow wise, reply’d Phocion.
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Phocion reprenoit aigrement les Atheniens, au lieu que l’Orateur Demosthene les flatoit par ses Harangues. Ce Peuple te tuera, s’il entre en fureur, dit Demosthene à Phocion; Et toi, s’il entre en son bon sens, lui repliqua Phocion.
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Alexander being at the point of Death, and his Domesticks having received his last Orders, they ask’d him where his Treasures lay? You will find them, said he, in my Friends Purses.