Demosthenes: “For what time or season would you have better than the present?”

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

The present crisis, O Athenians, requires, if any ever did, much thought and counsel.

For it is plain to the Olynthians, that now they are fighting, not for glory or a slice of territory, but to save their country from destruction and servitude.

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.