Demosthenes: “If such be your disposition now, I must be silent: if you will listen to good advice without flattery, I am ready to…”

So in political affairs, they who misuse their opportunities forget even the good which the gods send them; for every prior event is judged commonly by the last result.

You see to what wretched plight we are reduced by some men haranguing for popularity.

I request you, if I speak my mind, to be patient, and consider only, whether I speak the truth, and with a view to future amendment.

Impossible is it,--impossible, Athenians,--to acquire a solid power by injustice and perjury and falsehood.