Demosthenes: “This work belongs to you: this privilege your ancestors bequeathed to you, the prize of many perilous exertions.”

To call him perjured and treacherous, without showing what he has done, might justly be termed idle abuse.

As for me, never before have I courted favor, by speaking what I am not convinced is for your good, and now I have spoken my whole mind frankly and unreservedly.

There is the insult too, and the disgrace of the thing, worse than any damage to right-thinking men.

I could have wished, knowing the advantage of good counsel to you, I were equally certain of its advantage to the counselor: so should I have spoken with more satisfaction.