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Arguments from unlikes are most useful in exhortation. Courage is more remarkable in a woman
than in a man. Therefore, if we wish to kindle
someone's ambition to the performance of heroic
deeds, we shall find that parallels drawn from
the cases of Horatius and Torquatus will carry
less weight than that of the woman by whose
hand Pyrrhus was slain, and if we wish to urge
a man to meet death, the cases of Cato and
Scipio will carry less weight than that of
Lucretia. These are however arguments from the
greater to the less.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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