“My aim, then, is the education of the perfect orator. The
first essential for such a one is that he should be a good man, and
consequently we demand of him not merely the possession of exceptional gifts of
speech, but all the excellences of character as well.” -- Quintilian, ancient
Roman teacher of rhetoric
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