Whatever be the subject of a speech, therefore, in whatever art or branch of science, the orator, if he has made himself master of it, as of his client's case, will speak on it better and more elegantly than even the very originator and author of it can.


Translated by J. S. Watson, On Oratory & Orators, Book I, Chapter XII (p. 19), Harper & Brothers Publishers. 1878

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