Against Aristogeiton I

Demosthenes

Demosthenes. Vol. III. Orations, XXI-XXVI. Vince, J. H., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1935 (printing).

So when any of you, annoyed at his outrageous conduct, cries, To think that he should act like this, and he a debtor to the treasury! the reply is, What! Is not So-and-so a debtor too?—each man suggesting his personal enemy. Thus his wickedness is the cause of the scandals which are circulated about men who do not resemble him.