On the recordc. 349 BC
Such being your habits, you are the only people who adopt this singular course: others deliberate usually before action, you deliberate after action.
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Demosthenes
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gutenberg.orgDemosthenes: “Such being your habits, you are the only people who adopt this singular course: others deliberate usually before action…”
Editor's note · Context
Demosthenes sharply contrasts the Athenian habit of deliberating after events with the common practice of planning beforehand.
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