Is it right, therefore,to compose discourses such that they will do the most good if they succeed in convincing no one among those who hear them? Isocrates berating a student's defense of a client. Isocrates. Busiris. Speech 11. Section 47.
In other words: What is the point of composing a speech that will convince no one that hears it?
Image: Marc Antony's Oration at the Funeral of Caesar by George Edward Robertson (PD)
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