rhetoric

a.k.a. eloquence

Complementary virtues¶

• charisma
• debate
• emotional intelligence
• influence
• persuasion
• rationality
• understanding
• wit

Contrasting vices¶

• being a smooth talker (vice of excess)
• all talk and no cattle (vice of excess)
• being unconvincing

Virtues possibly in tension¶

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How to acquire or strengthen it¶

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Notes and links¶

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Mentioned elsewhere¶

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Inspirational quotes¶

• “[E]veryone who has read our Latin authors knows that they touch and pierce our vitals with the sharp, burning barbs of their eloquence. By these the sluggish are aroused, the frigid are inflamed, the drowsy are awakened, the weak are strengthened, the prostrate are raised, and the earthbound are lifted up toward lofty thoughts and noble desires.” —Petrarch, Invectives 109
• Cicero, Brutus 131; De optimo genere oratorum 1.3; De finibus 4.3.7