Cicero - De Oratore

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Action is the language of the body and should harmonize with the spirit within.

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The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.

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I can think of nothing more agreeable to the brain and the ear than a speech adorned and embellished with wise thoughts and fine language.

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History is truly the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity; whose voice, but the orator's, can entrust her to immortality?

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Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

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The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

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I should prefer uneloquent good sense to loquacious folly

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History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life, and brings us tidings of antiquity.

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Who does not know history's first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second that he must make bold to tell the whole truth? That there must be no suggestion of partiality anywhere in his writings? Nor of malice?

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