Demosthenes: “Do not imagine, that his empire is everlastingly secured to him as a god.”

I say, you must either desist from these practices, or blame none but yourselves for the wretched condition of your affairs.

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.