slander and false accusation

Know therefore, brother, and let everyone who is a friend of the truth know, that the treatises are not mine, nor do they please me, since they were not written according to my mind.

Therefore, in order both to repel the blasphemy that prevails against us and to show all men that we have nothing in common with those who say such things, we were compelled to make mention of the man, as one who approaches the impiety of Sabellius.

How, then, those who turn away from falsehood, who have been taught that love is the fulfilling of the law, who profess to bear the weaknesses of the powerless — how they have brought themselves to lay these slanders upon us and to condemn us out of other men's writings, I cannot, for all my reasoning, devise the cause, unless, as I said at the outset, I judged this to be a portion of the punishme …

The whole affair, therefore, from the beginning originated not with me, but with Demosthenes and Philocrates.

for no man who is lying is angry with the victim of his calumny, nor do men who are speaking the truth try to prevent the defendant from obtaining a hearing;

And if as my defence proceeds I fail to prove that the accusation is false, and that the man who dared to utter it is an impious slanderer, then, even though it be clear that I am innocent of all the other charges, I declare myself worthy of death.

that I might not seem to accuse anyone, nor slander the city, nor be at all more troublesome to any of those here.

" And the Thebans, hearing this, were pleased and laughed, and with reason, recalling, I think, his goodwill toward the people and the slanderer's false accusation.