De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
Neque enim haec ita dico, ut ars aliquos limare non possit —neque enim ignoro, et quae bona sint, fieri meliora posse doctrina, et, quae non optima, aliquo modo acui tamen et corrigi posse—, sed sunt quidam aut ita lingua haesitantes aut ita voce absoni aut ita vultu motuque corporis vasti atque agrestes, ut, etiam si ingeniis atque arte valeant, tamen in oratorum numerum venire non possint; sunt autem quidam ita in eisdem rebus habiles, ita naturae muneribus ornati, ut non nati, sed ab aliquo deo ficti esse videantur.
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Magnum quoddam est onus atque munus suscipere atque profiteri se esse, omnibus silentibus, unum maximis de rebus magno in conventu hominum audiendum; adest enim fere nemo, quin acutius atque acrius vitia in dicente quam recta videat; ita quicquid est, in quo offenditur, id etiam illa, quae laudanda sunt, obruit.
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