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History is truly the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity; whose voice, but the orator's, can entrust her to immortality?
De Oratore – On the Orator (-55)
Than a smatterer in law, wary, indeed, and a smart prater about actions, a setter-forth of forms, a captious wrangler.
De Oratore – On the Orator (-55)
In all things the greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.
De Oratore – On the Orator (-55)
I should prefer uneloquent good sense to loquacious folly
De Oratore – On the Orator (-55)