De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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Orator autem omnia haec, quae putantur
in communi vitae consuetudine mala ac molesta et
fugienda, multo maiora et acerbiora verbis facit; itemque
ea, quae vulgo expetenda atque optabilia videntur, dicendo
amplificat atque ornat; neque vult ita sapiens inter stultos
videri, ut ei, qui audiant, aut illum ineptum et Graeculum
putent, aut, etiam si valde probent ingenium, oratoris sapientiam
admirentur, se esse stultos moleste ferant;
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sed ita
peragrat per animos, ita sensus hominum mentisque pertractat,
ut non desideret philosophorum descriptiones neque
exquirat oratione, summum illud bonum in animone sit an
in corpore, virtute an voluptate definiatur, an haec inter se
iungi copularique possint; an vero, ut quibusdam visum,
nihil certum sciri, nihil plane cognosci et percipi possit;
quarum rerum fateor magnam multiplicemque esse disciplinam
et multas copiosas variasque rationes.
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