Smiles zijn besmettelijk

“As fainter lights disappear when the sunshine surrounds them, so the sophisms of rhetoric are dimmed when they are enveloped in encircling grandeur” Longinus - On The Sublime

“The effect of speech upon the condition of the soul is comparable to the power of drugs over the nature of bodies. For just as different drugs dispel different secretions from the body, and some bring and end to disease and others to life, so also in the case of speeches, some distress, others delight, some cause fear, others make the hearers bold, and some drug and bewitch the soul with a kind of evil persuasion.” Encomium of Helen - Gorgias

“Refusing to engage in controversy because you want to be “nice” is a bad thing, both for your own personal development and for the integrity of your liberal arts degree.” Dr. David Gore