Demosthenes: “Good luck is for those who are in a position to avail themselves of it.”

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.

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

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.

You see to what wretched plight we are reduced by some men haranguing for popularity.