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living rightly and speaking well. But with Socrates came the
division between the tongue and the heart. That the eloquent
Socrates should have been of all people the one to initiate a
division between thinking wisely and speaking well was
inexplicable: “. . . quorum princeps Socrates fuit, is, qui omnium
eruditorum testimonio totiusque judicio Graeciae cum
prudentia et acumine et venustate et subtilitate, tum vero
eloquentia, varietate, copia, quam se cumque in partem
dedisset omnium fuit facile princeps. . . .”
But after Socrates things became much worse in Cicero’s
opinion. The Stoics, despite a refusal to cultivate eloquence,
have alone of all the philosophers declared eloquence to be a
virtue and wisdom. For Cicero, wisdom is eloquence because
only by eloquence can knowledge be applied to the minds and
hearts of men. It is applied knowledge that obsesses the mind