On the recordc. 349 BC
Unreasonable were this and unnatural; for all things are easier kept than gotten.
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Demosthenes
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gutenberg.orgDemosthenes: “Unreasonable were this and unnatural; for all things are easier kept than gotten.”
Editor's note · Context
Demosthenes asserts a general truth about the difficulty of acquisition versus the relative ease of preservation.
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