Cicero, De Inventione 1.1: A Translation (Continued)

Long have I thought about the question, and reason itself leads me rather to believe that wisdom without eloquence is of little advantage to nations, but indeed eloquence without wisdom too often is an obstacle, and never an advantage, to them. Therefore, if someone neglects the most appropriate and honorable study of reason and duty and wastes all his effort in training to speak publicly, he is developing into a citizen of no use to himself and harmful to his country. But the one who arms himself with eloquence so that he does not oppose advantages to his own country, but instead actively fights to obtain them, this man seems to me to be a citizen of the greatest value and utility to his own relations and to the public at large.