human
Grip the subject: words will follow, is his chief contribution to rhetoric. Another has, it must be confessed, more of Quintilian's flavor:
gpt
An orator, son Marcus, is a good man skilled in speaking. He is most at home however upon his farm, preaching such familiar economies as
human
Buy not what you need, but what you must have: what you do not need is dear at a penny. The nearest approach to wit is but a sarcastic consciousness of human weakness, like the maxim
gpt
Praise large farms, but till a small one
human
Praise thou a little vessel, and store thy freight in a large one!
gpt
As though we had nothing to do, we sit here discussing whether some old Greeks shall be carried to their graves here or in Achaia! There was a touch of real humor, and perhaps of real culture too, in his retort when Polybius asked in addition for the restoration of civic honors held in Greece seventeen years agone.
human
Polybius, he said, with a smile,
gpt
Cato learned Greek at eighty as a grudging concession to the spirit of the age, or to obtain weapons from the foe's own armory wherewith to combat his influence, we need not argue. Indeed, it is nearly certain that any special study at that time could have been only a revival of