It behooves a man of taste not to indulge his resourcefulness, when he has more to say on a given subject than the other speakers, but to preserve always the element of timeliness no matter on what subject he may have occasion to speak. Isocrates. Panathenaicus. Speech 12. Section 34.
Image: Ovid in Exile by Romanian painter Ion Theodorescu-Sion, 1915, courtesy of Wikipedia Commons.
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