Fragments of Cicero’s Letters to Brutus in Quintilian (Taken from LCL 462)
Or. Inst. 3.8.41
“Cicero might be able to absolve me when he writes to Brutus with the suggestion of many things which could be used to advise Caesar:
“Would I be a good man, if I counseled him? Not at all—for an advisor’s goal should be to be useful to the person he advises. But the advice should also be right–Who denies it? But there is not always room for what is right when giving advice”
Poterat me liberare Cicero, qui ita scribit ad Brutum praepositis plurimis quae honeste suaderi Caesari possint: simne bonus vir, si haec suadeam? minime; suasoris enim finis est utilitas eius cui quisque suadet. at recta sunt. Quis negat? sed non est semper rectis in suadendo locus
8.3.6
“Cicero correctly puts it in these very words in some letter to Brutus: “For I do not think that eloquence which does not provoke wonder is eloquence at all”
Recteque Cicero his ipsis ad Brutum verbis quadam in epistula scribit: nam eloquentiam quae admirationem non habet nullam iudico
8.6.20
“When Cicero was writing to Brutus he said this much about himself: “I have tricked the people and seem to be an orator!”
Cicero ad Brutum populo, inquit, imposuimus et oratores visi sumus, cum de se tantum loqueretur
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