Will a Philip give to you because he promised, even at the price of sacrificing duty, even at the price of committing an injustice, even at the price of committing a crime, even at the price of closing all shores33 to the shipwrecked by this one act? There is no fickleness in leaving a wrong course when it has been recognized as such and condemned, and we must confess frankly: “I thought it was different, I have been deceived.” It is but the stubbornness of foolish pride to declare: “What I have once said, be it what it may, shall remain fixed and unaltered.” There is nothing wrong in changing a plan when the situation is changed. Tell me, if Philip had left the soldier in possession of the shores that he had obtained by shipwreck, is it not true that he would thereby have cut off all unfortunates from fire and water34? “Rather do you,” he said, “within the bounds of my kingdom carry everywhere upon your most brazen brow these letters that ought to be stamped upon all men’s eyes. Go, show how sacred a thing is the table of hospitality; display upon your countenance that decree, for all to read, which keeps it from being a capital crime to shelter the unfortunate beneath one’s roof! This ordinance will thus have more authority than if I had engraved it upon bronze.”