Re: 2007 Ion 2.4 hesitationI didnt post this, this guy is a douche who is hijacking peoples post names
and will be reported to his ISP.
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marx404
"marx404" <404@404,com > wrote in message
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> the head and the heart of those to whom we speak, on the one hand, and, on
> the other, between the thoughts and the expressions which we employ. This
> assumes that we have studied well the heart of man so as to know all its
> powers and, then, to find the just proportions of the discourse which we
> wish to adapt to them. We must put ourselves in the place of those who are
> to hear us, and make trial on our own heart of the turn which we give to
> our
> discourse in order to see whether one is made for the other, and whether
> we
> can assure ourselves that the hearer will be, as it were, forced to
> surrender. We ought to restrict ourselves, so far as possible, to the
> simple
> and natural, and not to magnify that which is little, or belittle that
> which
> is great. It is not enough that a thing be beautiful; it must be suitable
> to
> the subject, and there must be in it nothing of excess or defect.
>
> 17. Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to
> go.
>
> 18. When we do not know the truth of a thing, it is of advantage that
> there
> should exist a common error which determines the mind of man, as, for
> example, the moon, to which is attributed the change of seasons, the
> progress of diseases, etc. For the chief malady of man is restless
> curiosity
> about things which he cannot understand; and it is not so bad for him to
> be
> in error as to be curious to no purpose.
>
> The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote is
> the
> most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftenest
> quoted, because it is entirely composed of though
>
>