The fool tells me his reason; the wise man persuades me with my own.
Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
Finally, if nothing can be truly asserted, even the following claim would be false, the claim that there is no true assertion.
Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.
The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.