Demosthenes: “But by continually encroaching and grasping after more, he may possibly rouse you, if you have not altogether despaired.”

Yea, among these men, some have risen rapidly from poverty to wealth, from meanness and obscurity to repute and honor, while you, on the contrary, have fallen from honor to obscurity, from wealth to indigence.

But I suppose, you inherit a reputation from your father and grandfather, which it were disgraceful in your own person to extinguish, whereas the ancestry of the state was ignoble and mean.

For the riches of a state I consider to be allies, confidence, good-will; of all which you are destitute.

You can not surely allege, that Aristodemus ought to be of importance at Athens, and Athens to be of no account among the Greeks.