Share this page: The easiest thing in the world is self-deceit; for every man believes what he wishes, though the reality is often different. -- Third Olynthiac (349 BC) (Charles Rann Kennedy, tr.) Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states. -- Second Philippic (344-343 BC), ch. 21 There is one safeguard, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies against despots. What is it? Distrust. -- Second Philippic (344-343 BC), ch. 24 What worse change can one bring against an orator than that his words and his sentiments do not tally? -- On the Crown (330 BC) When asked what was first in oratory, [he] replied to his question, 'action', what second, 'action', and again third, 'third'. -- Quoted in: Cicero, On Brutus, ch. 37, section 142 Delivery, delivery, delivery. -- His reply when asked to name the three most important components of rhetoric, as quoted in Institutio Oratoria by Quintilian Share this page:

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