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And it is for the same
reason that Cicero in several of his books and letters
proclaims that eloquence has its fountain-head in the
most secret springs of wisdom, and that consequently
for a considerable time the instructors of morals and
of eloquence were identical. Accordingly this exhortation of mine must not be taken to mean that I
wish the orator to be a philosopher, since there is no
other way of life that is further removed from the
duties of a statesman and the tasks of an orator.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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