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Rhetoric [Ῥητορική; Ars Rhetorica], Book 3, ch. 1, sec. 5 (3.1.5) / 1404a (350 BC) [tr. Roberts (1924)] - Aristotle | WIST Quotations
We ought in fairness to fight our case with no help beyond the bare facts: nothing, therefore, should matter except the proof of those facts. Still, as has been already said, other things affect the result considerably, owing to the defects of our hearers. [δίκαιον γὰρ αὐτοῖς ἀγωνίζεσθαι τοῖς πράγμασιν,…