"Primum est igitur ut apud nos valeant ea quae valere apud iudicem volumus, adficiamurque antequam adficere conemur."
— Quintilian

January 1, 1970

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Accordingly, the first essential is that those feelings should prevail with us that we wish to prevail with the judge, and that we should be moved ourselves before we attempt to move others. — Book VI, Chapter II, 28; translation by H. E. Butler