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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 106. Chapters: 't kofschip, All Students Take Calculus, Anamonic, Art of memory, BAMBI (geometry), Bead-roll, Book tune, Cadaeic Cadenza, CAN SLIM, Carl Otto Reventlow, Chiastic structure, CHON, Chunking (psychology), Clorpt, Cognitive map, Cosmos Rossellius, De Oratore, De Oratore Book III, Electronic color code, ESCAPPM, Euouae, Exceptional memory, FBI mnemonics, First (communications), Fleming's left-hand rule for motors, FOIL method, Four Fs (evolution), FURPS, Irish penal rosary, I before E except after C, Japanese wordplay, Katapayadi system, Latin mnemonics, Linkword, List of chemistry mnemonics, List of electronic color code mnemonics, List of mnemonics, List of mnemonics for the cranial nerves, List of visual mnemonics, Magic SysRq key, Markus Hofmann, Memoria, Memory sport, Memrise, Method of loci, Metrodorus of Scepsis, MIMAL, Mnemonics in trigonometry, Mnemonic dominic system, Mnemonic link system, Mnemonic major system, Mnemonic peg system, Mnemonic verse of monarchs in England, OGHET, On a white bus, Order of operations, Pamvic, PAVPANIC, Piphilology, Planetary mnemonic, Rhetorica ad Herennium, Roy G. Biv, SARENE-SA, Scorpan, SIDSPACE, Simonides of Ceos, SMART criteria, St. Wapniacl, STING (productivity), Tally stick, Thermodynamic square, The Art of Memory, The Mnemonic Effect (advertising), Thirty days hath September, Xyzzy, Zoology mnemonic. Excerpt: De Oratore ("On the Orator") is a dialogue written by Cicero in 55 BCE. It is set in 91 BCE, when Lucius Licinius Crassus dies, just before the Social War and the civil war between Marius and Sulla, during which Marcus Antonius Orator, the other great orator of this dialogue, dies. During this year, the author faces a difficult political situation: after his return from exile in Dyrrachium (modern Albania), his house was destroyed by the gangs of Clodius in a time when violence was common. This was intertwined with the street politics of Rome. Amidst the moral and political decadence of the state, Cicero wrote De Oratore to describe the ideal orator and imagine him as a moral guide of the state. He did not intend De Oratore as merely a treatise on rhetoric, but went beyond mere technique to make several references to philosophical principles. Cicero understood that the power of persuasion-the ability to verbally manipulate opinion in crucial political decisions-was a key issue. The power of words in the hands of a man without scruples or principles would endanger the whole community. As a consequence, moral principles can be taken either by the examples of noble men of the past or by the great Greek philosophers, who provided ethical ways to be followed in their teaching and their works. The perfect orator shall be not merely a skilled speaker without moral principles, but both an expert of rhetorical technique and a man of wide knowledge in law, history, and ethical principles. De Oratore is an exposition of issues, techniques, and divisions in rhetoric; it is also a parade of examples for several of them and it makes continuous references to philosophical concepts to be merged for a perfect result. At that time as much as when Cicero writes the dialogue, the crisis of the state is obsessing everyone and clashes deliberately with the pleasant and quiet atmosphere of the villa in Tusculum. Cicero tries to reproduce the feeling of the last days of peace in the old Ro
