Demosthenes: “And how think ye a man, who behaves so insolently to all, how will he act, when he gets each separately under his…”

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.

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.

On many occasions, men of Athens, one may see the kindness of the gods to this country manifested, but most signally, I think, on the present.

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