I ask you not to judge the matter by words but by deeds. For war is not decided by speech but by action, where there is no arguing with the enemy: one must either fight and win or be a slave in silence.
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A pair of display speeches, the only works of Antisthenes to survive complete out of the ten volumes ancient catalogues credit to him. Each hero argues his own claim to the armor of Achilles: Ajax from deeds, Odysseus from intelligence. The rest of Antisthenes (on nature, on language, on Heracles as the model of philosophical toil) survives only in scattered reports.