Poverty more powerful than PersuasionFor the Andrians were the first of the islanders from whom Themistokles had demanded money and who had refused to pay him. Themistokles...
Preaching the SublimeSublime consists in a consummate excellence and distinction of language, and that this alone gave to the greatest poets and prose writers...
Scars better than wordsCicero writes in various places that the duty of the orator is “to speak in a manner suited to persuade.” In his Rhetorica, however...
TruthPlato on Truth: “Truth, O stranger, is a fair and durable thing. But it is a thing of which it is hard to persuade men.” Diogenes....