Historia vero testis temporum, lux veritatis, vita memoriae, magistra vitae, nuntia vetustatis, qua voce alia nisi oratoris immortalitati commendatur?History is truely the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity; whose voice, but the orators, can entrust her to immortality?De Oratore Book II; Chapter IX, section 36

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