De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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Quid enim est aut tam admirabile, quam ex infinita
multitudine hominum exsistere unum, qui id, quod omnibus
natura sit datum, vel solus vel cum perpaucis facere possit?
aut tam iucundum cognitu atque auditu, quam sapientibus
sententiis gravibusque verbis ornata oratio et polita? aut
tam potens tamque magnificum, quam populi motus, iudicum
religiones, senatus gravitatem unius oratione converti?
Quid tam porro regium, tam liberale, tam munificum, quam
opem ferre supplicibus, excitare adflictos, dare salutem,
liberare periculis, retinere homines in civitate?
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Quid autem
tam necessarium, quam tenere semper arma, quibus vel
tectus ipse esse possis vel provocare integer vel te ulcisci
lacessitus? Age vero, ne semper forum, subsellia, rostra
curiamque meditere, quid esse potest in otio aut iucundius
aut magis proprium humanitatis, quam sermo facetus ac
nulla in re rudis? Hoc enim uno praestamus vel maxime
feris, quod conloquimur inter nos et quod exprimere dicendo
sensa possumus.
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