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For my own part, I swear by Zeus the king and by all the
gods, I never made it a matter of reproach to anyone, men of the jury, nor
blamed him, if he chose to be a sophist and to pay money to Isocrates; I should
be mad if I concerned myself about anything of that sort. But, by Zeus, I do not
think it right that men, because they look down on people and think themselves
clever, should covet the property of others and seek to defraud them, trusting
in their power of speech. That is the part of a rascally sophist, who should be
made to suffer for it.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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