De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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Huius est in dando consilio
de maximis rebus cum dignitate explicata sententia;
eiusdem et languentis populi incitatio et effrenati moderatio;
eadem facultate et fraus hominum ad perniciem et integritas
ad salutem vocatur. Quis cohortari ad virtutem
ardentius, quis a vitiis acrius revocare, quis vituperare
improbos asperius, quis laudare bonos ornatius, quis cupiditatem
vehementius frangere accusando potest? Quis
maerorem levare mitius consolando?
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Historia vero testis
temporum, lux veritatis, vita memoriae, magistra vitae, nuntia
vetustatis, qua voce alia nisi oratoris immortalitati commendatur?
Nam si qua est ars alia, quae verborum aut
faciendorum aut legendorum scientiam profiteatur; aut si
quisquam dicitur nisi orator formare orationem eamque
variare et distinguere quasi quibusdam verborum sententiarumque
insignibus; aut si via ulla nisi ab hac una arte
traditur aut argumentorum aut sententiarum aut denique
discriptionis atque ordinis, fateamur aut hoc, quod haec ars
profiteatur, alienum esse aut cum alia aliqua arte esse commune:
sed si in hac una est ea ratio atque doctrina, non,
si qui aliarum artium bene locuti sunt, eo minus id est
huius unius proprium;
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