Rhetoric Day 151

Posted on July 14, 2010 by David Oliver

"Words must not only be well chosen, but properly disposed, and the speaker must have a thorough knowledge of all the affections which nature has implanted in the soul of man, because it demands the whole energy and power of speaking to awaken and to sooth the passions of an audience."

- Cicero "De Oratore"

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