[12]
Others are the victims of a
more arrogant form of sloth; they assume a stern
air and let their beards grow, and, as though despising the precepts of oratory, sit for a while in
the schools of the philosophers, that, by an assumption of a severe mien before the public gaze and by
an affected contempt of others they may assert their
moral superiority, while leading a life of debauchery
at home. For philosophy may be counterfeited, but
eloquence never.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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