After employing these gifts of eloquence in
the courts, in councils, in public assemblies and the
debates of the senate, and, in a word, in the performance of all the duties of a good citizen, the
orator will bring his activities to a close in a manner
worthy of a blameless life spent in the pursuit of
the noblest of professions. And he will do this,
not because he can ever have enough of doing good,
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or because one endowed with intellect and talents
such as his would not be justified in praying that
such glorious labours may be prolonged to their
utmost span, but for this reason, that it is his duty
to look to the future, for fear that his work may be
less effective than it has been in the past.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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