Speech is a powerful master and achieves the most divine feats with the smallest and least evident body. It can stop fear, relieve pain, create joy, and increase pity
GorgiasI answer, Socrates, that rhetoric is the art of persuasion in courts of law and other assemblies, as I was just now saying, and about the just and unjust.
GorgiasBeing is unrecognizable unless it manages to seem, and seeming is feeble unless it manages to be.
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