It will be sufficient, therefore, to intimate that no man should be allowed too much authority over an age so weak and so unable to resist ill treatment.
Quintilian
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- Institutes of Oratory. Book I, chapter 3. https://kairos.technorhetoric.net/stasis/2017/honeycutt/quintilian/1/chapter3.html
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