#counsel — Public Fediverse posts

A quotation from Horace

Whene’er you lecture, be concise: the soul
Takes in short maxims, and retains them whole:
But pour in water when the vessel’s filled,
It simply dribbles over and is spilled.
 
[Quidquid praecipies, esto brevis, ut cito dicta
percipiant animi dociles teneantque fideles:
omne supervacuum pleno de pectore manat.]

Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 3 “Art of Poetry [Ars Poetica; To the Pisos],” l. 335ff (2.3.335-337) (19 BC) [tr. Conington (1874)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/33634/

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A quotation from Ben Franklin

He that won’t be counsell’d, can’t be help’d.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1747 ed.)

More about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/84…

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First #Black #gay #WhiteHouse #presssecretary made Biden’s #senior #presidential #advisor

“#KarineJeanPierre has been a #trusted #advisor to the #president and all of us here at the White House since day one,” #JeffZients, the #president’s #chiefofstaff, told #ABCNews. “Her #counsel will be critical to get as much done as possible for the #American #people in the coming months.”

https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/10/09/karine-jean-pierre-promoted-to-senior-advisor/