"Great is our admiration of the orator..." - Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
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“Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter so affected as to be swayed by something resembling an impulse of the spirit impetu quodam animi or emotion perturbatione, rather than by judgment or deliberation. For men decide far more problems by hate, or love, or lust, or rage, or sorrow, or joy, or hope, or fear, or illusion, or some other inward emotion aliqua permotione mentis, than by reality or authority, or any legal standard, or judicial precedent or statute.”
“They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.”
“A good orator is pointed and impassioned.”