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Full Idea
For me there are no true orators and super-orators unless they can convince the arguments themselves to run after them.
Gist of Idea
Great orators lead their arguments, rather than following them
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1882-84 [1883], 22[01])
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Fragments from the period of 'Zarathustra' (v 14)', ed/tr. Loeb/Tinsley [Stanford 2019], p.547
A Reaction
I translate this as great orators generating the mere appearance of good arguments. Both reason and feeling must be irrationally swept along. Nice.