"Persuasion is effected through the medium of..." - Quote by Aristotle

“Friendship is communion.”

“Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.”

“We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.”

“All men have a feeling, that they would rather you told them a civil lie than give them a point blank refusal.... If you make a promise, the thing is still uncertain, depends on a future day, and concerns but few people; but if you refuse you alienate people to a certainty and at once, and many people too.”

“It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does not even-quench thirst any more?”

“One should use common words to say uncommon things”

“I never saw an instance of one or two disputants convincing the other by argument.”

“I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself.”

“Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason.”