Antonio argues that to be a good rhetorician, you must have experience. Your rhetoric must have rhythm and be graceful to be successful. A good orator must study enough rhetoric to draw inspiration from the work of others, as rhetoric is a strenuous and expansive study. Antony implies that good rhetoric is more a behavior and a study than a science. As an advocate of expansive knowledge, Antony argues that "(the rhetorician) must be a shrewd kind of man, and not a stranger or foreigner in his sphere of action." Antony stipulates that a rhetorician must study thoroughly to avoid being bested in rhetoric, for the courts and the senate are where the rhetorician should