/lit/ - Literature

>>19133756
nice

the ideal philosopher persuades people who read with the least amount of rhetoric
the ideal psychologist persuades people who don't read with every rhetoric trick imaginable

a philosopher approaches the psychologist when he abuses the oratory art
a psychologist approaches the philosopher as his clients become more erudite

>Antiphon had been banished and was living in Corinth where he set up a “consolation booth” with a sign that he could heal the sad and distressed just by talking to them. When people came to him he listened to their tales of grief and affliction and by his soothing eloquence healed their sorrow.