Demosthenes: “Then are you not ashamed, that the very damage which you would suffer, if he had the power, you dare not seize the…”

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…

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.

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

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.