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 Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with 
ease.
 [Fr., Ce que l'on concoit bien read more 
 Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with 
ease.
 [Fr., Ce que l'on concoit bien s'enonce clairement,
  Et les mots pour le dire arrivent aisement.] 
 The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they 
are, as it were, a natural art, the rules read more 
 The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they 
are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of which are 
infallible; and the simplest man with passion is more persuasive 
than the most eloquent without it. 
 The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; 
the Rhetorician can prove that he ought read more 
 The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; 
the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and 
carried all with him. 
The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.
The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.
 Solon wished everybody to be ready to take everybody else's part; 
but surely Chilo was wiser in holding that read more 
 Solon wished everybody to be ready to take everybody else's part; 
but surely Chilo was wiser in holding that public affairs go best 
when the laws have much attention and the orators none. 
 I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts.
 I am no orator, as Brutus is,
  But read more 
 I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts.
 I am no orator, as Brutus is,
  But (as you know me all) a plain blunt man
   That love my friend; and that they know full well
    That gave me public leave to speak of him. 
There is no true orator who is not a hero.
There is no true orator who is not a hero.
He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.
He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.
 It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against 
another man's oration,--nay, it is a very read more 
 It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against 
another man's oration,--nay, it is a very easy matter; but to 
produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.