"Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory……" — Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance and refinement from eloquence."
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- Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable. — Marcus Tullius Cicero