[22] And it is also a service to the people sometimes to endure the evil speech and anger of a man in office, repeating to oneself either the words of Diomedes: “For unto him will accrue mighty glory,[97] ” or the saying of Demosthenes,[98] that now he is not only Demosthenes, but also one of the thesmothetae,[99] or a choregus, or the wearer of a crown.[100] We should, therefore, put off our requital to the right time; for then either we shall attack him after his term of office is ended or in the delay our gain will be the cessation of anger.