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There is nothing easier than self-delusion. Since what man desires, is the first thing he believes.
Response when asked to name the three most important components of rhetoric, as quoted in Institutio Oratoria (c. 95) by Quintilian; also in Unspoken : A Rhetoric of Silence (2004) by Cheryl Glenn, p. 150 | ||