De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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qua re qui aut breviter aut summisse dicunt,
docere iudicem possunt, commovere non possunt; in quo
sunt omnia.
Iam illud perspicuum est, omnium rerum in contrarias
partis facultatem ex eisdem suppeditari locis. Sed argumento
resistendum est aut eis, quae comprobandi eius causa
sumuntur, reprehendendis aut demonstrando, id, quod concludere
illi velint, non effici ex propositis nec esse consequens,
aut, si ita non refellas, adferendum est in contrariam
partem, quod sit aut gravius aut aeque grave.
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Illa autem,
quae aut conciliationis causa leniter aut permotionis vehementer
aguntur, contrariis commotionibus auferenda sunt,
ut odio benevolentia, ut misericordia invidia tollatur.
Suavis autem est et vehementer saepe utilis iocus et facetiae;
quae, etiam si alia omnia tradi arte possunt, naturae
sunt propria certe neque ullam artem desiderant: in quibus
tu longe aliis mea sententia, Caesar, excellis; quo magis
mihi etiam aut testis esse potes nullam esse artem salis aut,
si qua est, eam tu potissimum nos docere.'
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