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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Plutarch's Lives by A. H. Clough: Cassander's side, and afterwards taken part with Demetrius, said
the two things were not in themselves contrary, it being always
most advisable to obey the conqueror. We have nothing of this
kind to say against Demosthenes, as one who would turn aside or
prevaricate, either in word or deed. There could not have been
less variation in his public acts if they had all been played,
so to say, from first to last, from the same score. Panaetius,
the philosopher, said, that most of his orations are so written,
as if they were to prove this one conclusion, that what is
honest and virtuous is for itself only to be chosen; as that of
the Crown, that against Aristocrates, that for the Immunities,
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