Quintilian: We should not write so that it is possible for [the reader] to understand us…
We should not write so that it is possible for [the reader] to understand us, but so that it is impossible for him to misunderstand us.
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- You will never inspire people by criticizing them.
- If your word is good, you are good. If your word is no good, you are not good.
- You have to say what you hear, so you can see what you say.
- Speak what God says over people's lives and in doing so you empower them with an advantage because of your words.
- Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.
- Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.