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"Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art."
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"You know, to address crowds and make promises does not require very much brains."
"You aren't in the ivy halls of your miserable literature pursuit now. Without wasting more time, will thou cometh to the pointeth? Dost thou wanteth us to stayeth or leaveth?"
"I prayed aloud, less to plead for divine favor than to intimidate the tribe with articulate speech."
"It is absurd to hold that a man should be ashamed of an inability to defend himself with his limbs, but not ashamed of an inability to defend himself with speech and reason; for the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs."
"Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding."
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"I have gained this by philosophy. I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law."
"Now to exert oneself and work for the sake of amusement seems silly and utterly childish. But to amuse oneself in order that one may exert oneself, as Anacharsis puts it, seems right; for amusement is a sort of relaxation, and we need relaxation because we cannot work continuously. Relaxation, then, is not an end; for it is taken for the sake of activity."
"Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last."
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