Quare non ut intellegere possit sed ne omnino possit non in… - Quintilian

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Quare non ut intellegere possit sed ne omnino possit non intellegere curandum.

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Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (c. 35 – c. 100), was a Roman rhetorician. His De Institutione Oratoria was widely referred to in medieval schools of rhetoric and in Renaissance writing.

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For it had been better for men to be born dumb and devoid of reason than to turn the gifts of providence to their mutual destruction.

Et hercule quantumlibet secreta studia contulerint, est tamen proprius quidam fori profectus, alia lux, alia veri discriminis facies, plusque, si separes, usus sine doctrina quam citra usum doctrina valeat.

We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.

Quare non ut intellegere possit sed ne omnino possit non intellegere curandum. - Quintilian

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