Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter so affected as to be swayed by something resembling an impulse of the spirit impetu quodam animi or emotion perturbatione, rather than by judgment or deliberation. For men decide far more problems by hate, or love, or lust, or rage, or sorrow, or joy, or hope, or fear, or illusion, or some other inward emotion aliqua permotione mentis, than by reality or authority, or any legal standard, or judicial precedent or statute.

Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.

If you wish to persuade me, you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings, and speak my words.

Morals today are corrupted by our worship of riches.

For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.