# Institutio Oratoria 5.12.5

Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 5, Chapter 12. Latin.

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ita quae non possunt valere, quia magna sint, valebunt, quia multa sunt; utique vero ad eiusdem rei probationem omnia spectant. ut , si quis hereditatis gratia hominem occidisse dicatur: hereditatem sperabas et magnam hereditatem, et pauper eras et tum maxime a creditoribus appellabaris; et offenderas eum, cuius eras heres, et mutaturum tabulas sciebas. singula levia sunt et communia, universa vero nocent etiamsi non ut fulmine, tamen ut grandine.

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Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, ed. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Text: the Perseus Digital Library, canonical-latinLit, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
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