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VIII. Sincere enthusiasm is the only orator who always persuades. It
is like an art the rules of which never fail; the simplest man with
enthusiasm persuades better than the most eloquent with none.

And the orator with the most enthusiasm and the greatest eloquence is
often forgotten, even by the POTUS. Thank goodness we have the press
to educate the uneducated people we elect and preserve the brilliance
of men like Frederick Douglass.



On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 11:15 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> Was not the translation MY INTERNET served me....
>
> Very nice aphorism, of course. As with all such, the general 'truth' is not
> an always-the-case-like-science, -like-fact,  truth...
> It is why it is a superb aphorism.
>
> from another great aphorist whose truths are largely true but no universally
> so, of course.
>
> II. Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
>
> VIII. Sincere enthusiasm is the only orator who always persuades. It is like
> an art the rules of which never fail; the simplest man with enthusiasm
> persuades better than the most eloquent with none.
>
> XIV. Men are not only subject to losing all recollection of kindnesses and
> injuries done them, they even hate those to whom they are obliged and cease
> to hate those who have harmed them. The effort of repaying the kindness and
> avenging the evil seem to them a servitude to which they are unwilling to
> submit.
>
> XXX. If we had no faults, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing
> those of others.
>
> CCLXI. Flirtatiousness is fundamental to a woman's nature, but not all put
> it into practice because some are restrained by fear or by good sense.
>
> CDXI. There hardly exist faults which are not more pardonable than the means
> by which one tries to hide them.
>
> CDXXXIII. The truest mark of having been born with great qualities is to
> have been born without envy.[8]
>
> Referenced by Bernard Lonergan in Insight, People generally complain about
> their memory, but never about their judgment.
>
>
> On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 10:36 AM, Thomas Eckhardt
> <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
>>
>> The internet suggests: "To write a feuilleton is to curl locks on a bald
>> head."
>>
>> Sounds like an adequate translation to me.
>
>
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