Demosthenes: “If, seeing the abundance of commodities and cheapness in your market, you are beguiled into a belief that the state is…”

So report says, and I can well believe it; for undeserved success leads weak-minded men into folly; and thus it appears often, that to maintain prosperity is harder than to acquire it.

Choose which ye think expedient; and put hands to the work, while it is yet time.

For I have been taught both by hearsay and experience, that most of your advantages have escaped you, from unwillingness to do your duty, not from ignorance.

To censure, I may be told, is easy for any man; to show what measures the case requires, is the part of a counselor.