Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do: and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him.
To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.
The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.
When people speak their own language you get a much better sense of who they are.
To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.
We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.
A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.
To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.