"There is no necessity for the man..." - Quote by Plato
There is no necessity for the man who means to be an orator to understand what is really just but only what would appear so to the majority of those who will give judgment; and not what is really good or beautiful but whatever will appear so; because persuasion comes from that and not from the truth.
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“Be kind. Every person you meetis fighting a difficult battle.”
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“To one who habitually endeavors to contemplate the true state of things, the political state can hardly be said to have any existence whatever. It is unreal, incredible, and insignificant to him, and for him to endeavor to extract the truth from such lean material is like making sugar from linen rags, when sugar-cane may be had.”
“No sophistry, no jugglery in figures can explain away the evidence that the skeletons in many villages present to the naked eye.”
“The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.”