De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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Qui sit autem
oratori memoriae fructus, quanta utilitas, quanta vis, quid
me attinet dicere? tenere, quae didiceris in accipienda
causa, quae ipse cogitaris? omnis fixas esse in animo
sententias? omnem descriptum verborum apparatum? ita
audire vel eum, unde discas, vel eum, cui respondendum sit,
ut illi non infundere in auris tuas orationem, sed in animo
videantur inscribere? Itaque soli qui memoria vigent,
sciunt quid et quatenus et quo modo dicturi sint, quid
responderint, quid supersit: eidemque multa ex aliis causis
aliquando a se acta, multa ab aliis audita meminerunt.
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Qua
re confiteor equidem huius boni naturam esse principem,
sicut earum rerum, de quibus ante locutus sum, omnium;
sed haec ars tota dicendi, sive artis imago quaedam et
similitudo est, habet hanc vim, non ut totum aliquid, cuius
in ingeniis nostris pars nulla sit, pariat et procreet, verum
ut ea, quae sunt orta iam in nobis et procreata, educet
atque confirmet;
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