De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
enim multo saepe obscuriores—videmus amitti. Ita non nulli, dum operam suam multam existimari volunt, ut toto foro volitare et a causa ad causam ire videantur, causas dicunt incognitas; in quo est illa quidem magna offensio vel neglegentiae, susceptis rebus, vel perfidiae, receptis; sed etiam illa maior opinione, quod nemo potest de ea re, quam non novit, non turpissime dicere: ita dum inertiae vituperationem, quae maior est, contemnunt, adsequuntur etiam illam, quam magis ipsi fugiunt, tarditatis.
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Equidem soleo dare operam, ut de sua quisque re me ipse doceat et ut ne quis alius adsit, quo liberius loquatur, et agere adversari causam, ut ille agat suam et quicquid de sua re cogitarit in medium proferat: itaque cum ille discessit, tris personas unus sustineo summa animi aequitate, meam, adversari, iudicis. Qui locus est talis, ut plus habeat adiumenti quam incommodi, hunc iudico esse dicendum; ubi plus mali quam boni reperio, id totum abiudico atque eicio.
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