"To teach is a necessity, to please..." - Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero
To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.
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“The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander.”
“It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.”
“It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.”
More on Teaching
“I believe in having fun first, and along the way, if you teach people, if you influence people, well and good.”
“The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.”
“I have known only one way of carrying on missionary work, viz., by personal example and discussion with searchers for knowledge.”
More on Persuasion
“If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.”
“Now all orators effect their demonstrative proofs by allegation either of enthymems or examples, and, besides these, in no other way whatever.”
“Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso makes its opinions more easily understandable and persuasive.”