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You writers must pick a subject that suits your powers, giving lengthy thought to what your shoulders are built for and what they aren’t. If your choice of theme is within your scope, you won’t have to seek for fluent speech or lucid arrangement.
Arrangement’s virtue and value reside, if I’m not mistaken, in this: to say right now what has to be said right now, postponing and leaving out a great deal for the present.Speaker: HoracePosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 6:42 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Avoiding a fault will lead to error if art is missing.
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Whenever people arguing on the same theory do not reach the same conclusion, you may be sure that they do not know what they are talking about.
Speaker: HippocratesPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 6:37 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
As the cover is made to fit the shield and the scabbard to fit the sword, so everything in nature, except the universe itself, has been created to serve something other than itself.
Speaker: CiceroPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 6:37 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A flowing river cannot be so easily polluted as a standing pool. A full discourse washes away the scum of criticism, but the circle of a closed argument cannot so easily preserve its pristine purity.
Speaker: CiceroPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 6:36 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
[Regarding the human race] “earthbound at the misty bottom of the universe.”
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The crux of the matter is known to all men everywhere. From the birth it is inscribed upon their minds that gods exist.
Speaker: CiceroPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 6:34 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The unseemly remark lightly dropped results in conduct of like kind.
Speaker: AristotlePosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 6:34 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is not Fortune’s business to make a state sound; that is a task for knowledge and deliberate choice.
Speaker: AristotlePosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 6:33 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Character is the kind of thing which discloses the nature of a choice.
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If someone were to apply exquisitely beautiful colors at random he would find less pleasure than if he had outlined an image in black and white.
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Well-being and ill-being reside in action, and the goal of life is an activity, not a quality.
Speaker: AristotlePosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 6:30 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Tragedy is an imitation of an action that is admirable, complete and possesses magnitude…effecting through pity and fear the purification of such emotions.
Speaker: AristotlePosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 6:29 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!