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.