Demosthenes: “Success perhaps throws a shade over them now; prosperity is a famous hider of such blemishes; but, on any miscarriage…”

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.

Because our city is the only one where liberty is allowed to speak for the enemy, where a man taking a bribe may safely address the people, though they have been deprived of their possessions.

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

Yea, among these men, some have risen rapidly from poverty to wealth, from meanness and obscurity to repute and honor, while you, on the contrary, have fallen from honor to obscurity, from wealth to indigence.