An idea from Confessions

For almost 9 years he waits for the sect’s star teacher, Faustus, to answer his questions. Faustus is charming and fluent but knows little beyond grammar, and is honest enough to admit it. Fluent speech proved nothing about truth: “nor therefore true, because eloquent.”

From Confessions by Augustine

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