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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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"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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"I prayed aloud, less to plead for divine favor than to intimidate the tribe with articulate speech."
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"It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk."
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"I got my degree in rhetoric."
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"You know, to address crowds and make promises does not require very much brains."
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"Rhetoric is cheap, evidence comes more dearly."
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"True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary and nothing but what is necessary."
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"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."
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"The matter is as it is in all other cases: if it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice."
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"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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"The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more."
Learning
"Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities."
Optimism
"He who hath many friends hath none."
Friendship
"It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it."
Desire
"Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms."
Politics
"It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world."
Wisdom
"Men do not become tyrants in order that they may not suffer cold."
Power
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
Wisdom
"I have gained this by philosophy. I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law."
Philosophy
"Learning is not child's play, we cannot learn without pain."
Learning
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