If you think that your usual vulgarity and joking will secure your pardon in court or win from the jury any indulgence or sympathy to which you are not entitled, you are a fool and very far from the mark. Hyperides. Against Philippides. Speech 2. Section 7.
Image: Death of Alcibiades by Michele De Napoli, 1839, at the National Museum of Capodimonte courtesy of Wikimedia Commmons.
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