# Institutio Oratoria 7.2.34

Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 7, Chapter 2. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/quintilian/institutio-oratoria/7.2.34

haec in respondendo. sic autem praeparabit actione prima iudicum animos, ut noluisse potius obiicere quam non potuisse credatur. eoque satius est omni se ante actae vitae abstinere convicio quam levibus aut frivolis aut manifesto falsis reum incessere, quia fides ceteris detrahitur; et qui nihil obiicit, omisisse credi potest maledicta tanquam supervacua; qui vana congerit, confitetur unum in anteactis argumentum, in quibus vinci quam tacere maluerit.

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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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