On the record44 BC
Can anything be so pliable, so wavering, as the mind of a man whose attitude depends not only on another's feeling and wish, but on his very looks and nods?
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Cicero
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gutenberg.orgCicero: “Can anything be so pliable, so wavering, as the mind of a man whose attitude depends not only on another's feeling and…”
Editor's note · Context
Cicero uses a rhetorical question to describe the extreme instability of a person whose opinions are entirely dictated by others' expressions and desires.
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