De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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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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