Demosthenes: “If a man keep what he gets, he is thankful to fortune; if he lose it by imprudence, he loses withal his memory of the…”

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

They say that you should keep quiet, though you are injured; but they can not themselves keep quiet among you, though no one injures them.

If we admitted the truth of what would be your best possible answer, namely, that all you do is for honor and renown, I wonder what puts it into your head, that you ought from such motives to exert yourself and undergo toil and danger…

Such is the truth, spoken with perfect freedom, purely from good-will and for the best: not a speech fraught with flattery and mischief and deceit, to earn money for the speaker, and to put the commonwealth into the hands of our enemies.