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