Rhetoric Day 97.1
If the cause has a discreditable character, we can make our Introduction with the following points: that the agent, not the action, ought to be considered; that we ourselves are displeased with the acts which our opposite say have been committed, and that these are unworthy, yes, heinous. Next, when we have for a time enlarged upon the idea, we shall show that nothing of the kind has been committed by us.
- Cicero "Ad Herennium"
