Saturday, January 07, 2023
Listen to Yourself
Cicero, Letters to His Friends 2.7.1 (to C. Scribonius Curio; tr. W. Glynn Williams):
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I exhort you to let yourself be guided and controlled in all things by your own common sense, and not be carried away by the proposals of others. There is nobody who can give you sounder advice than yourself; if you listen to yourself, you will never slip.Theodore Roosevelt, letter to Jonas Van Duzer (November 20, 1883):
teque hortor, ut omnia gubernes et moderere prudentia tua, ne te auferant aliorum consilia. nemo est qui tibi sapientius suadere possit te ipso; numquam labere si te audies.
Certainly no man, nor yet any ring or clique, can do my thinking for me.
