“It is possible to see how persuasion prevails, which lacks the appearance of necessity but has the same power. For speech, which persuaded, compelled the soul, which it persuaded, both to believe what was said and to approve what was done. Therefore, the one who persuaded, since he compelled, is unjust, and the one who was persuaded, since she was compelled by speech, is wrongly blamed.”
– Gorgias, Fragments, B11
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