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He said that he felt very grateful to the popular leaders of the Athenians, because by maligning him they made him better both in speech and in character, ‘For I try both by my words and by my deeds to prove that they are liars.’
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
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