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  1. A quotation from Montaigne

    A man must not always tell all, for that were folly: but what a man says should be what he thinks, otherwise ’tis knavery.
     
    [Il ne faut pas tousjours dire tout, car ce seroit sottise : Mais ce qu’on dit, il faut qu’il soit tel qu’on le pense : autrement, c’est meschanceté.]

    Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
    Essays, Book 2, ch. 17 (2.17), “Of Presumption [De la Presomption]” (1578) [tr. Cotton/Hazlitt (1877)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #micheldemontaigne #deceit #dishonesty #folly #foolishness #forthrightness #honesty #integrity #lying #oversharing #sinofcommission #sinofomission #spill #frankness #truthfulness #sincerity #forthrightness #bluntness

  2. A quotation from Montaigne

    A man must not always tell all, for that were folly: but what a man says should be what he thinks, otherwise ’tis knavery.
     
    [Il ne faut pas tousjours dire tout, car ce seroit sottise : Mais ce qu’on dit, il faut qu’il soit tel qu’on le pense : autrement, c’est meschanceté.]

    Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
    Essays, Book 2, ch. 17 (2.17), “Of Presumption [De la Presomption]” (1578) [tr. Cotton/Hazlitt (1877)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #micheldemontaigne #deceit #dishonesty #folly #foolishness #forthrightness #honesty #integrity #lying #oversharing #sinofcommission #sinofomission #spill #frankness #truthfulness #sincerity #forthrightness #bluntness

  3. A quotation from Montaigne

    A man must not always tell all, for that were folly: but what a man says should be what he thinks, otherwise ’tis knavery.
     
    [Il ne faut pas tousjours dire tout, car ce seroit sottise : Mais ce qu’on dit, il faut qu’il soit tel qu’on le pense : autrement, c’est meschanceté.]

    Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
    Essays, Book 2, ch. 17 (2.17), “Of Presumption [De la Presomption]” (1578) [tr. Cotton/Hazlitt (1877)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #micheldemontaigne #deceit #dishonesty #folly #foolishness #forthrightness #honesty #integrity #lying #oversharing #sinofcommission #sinofomission #spill #frankness #truthfulness #sincerity #forthrightness #bluntness

  4. A quotation from Montaigne

    A man must not always tell all, for that were folly: but what a man says should be what he thinks, otherwise ’tis knavery.
     
    [Il ne faut pas tousjours dire tout, car ce seroit sottise : Mais ce qu’on dit, il faut qu’il soit tel qu’on le pense : autrement, c’est meschanceté.]

    Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
    Essays, Book 2, ch. 17 (2.17), “Of Presumption [De la Presomption]” (1578) [tr. Cotton/Hazlitt (1877)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #micheldemontaigne #deceit #dishonesty #folly #foolishness #forthrightness #honesty #integrity #lying #oversharing #sinofcommission #sinofomission #spill #frankness #truthfulness #sincerity #forthrightness #bluntness

  5. A quotation from Montaigne

    A man must not always tell all, for that were folly: but what a man says should be what he thinks, otherwise ’tis knavery.
     
    [Il ne faut pas tousjours dire tout, car ce seroit sottise : Mais ce qu’on dit, il faut qu’il soit tel qu’on le pense : autrement, c’est meschanceté.]

    Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
    Essays, Book 2, ch. 17 (2.17), “Of Presumption [De la Presomption]” (1578) [tr. Cotton/Hazlitt (1877)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #micheldemontaigne #deceit #dishonesty #folly #foolishness #forthrightness #honesty #integrity #lying #oversharing #sinofcommission #sinofomission #spill #frankness #truthfulness #sincerity #forthrightness #bluntness

  6. A quotation from Terry Pratchett

       Carrot often struck people as simple. And he was.
       Where people went wrong was thinking that simple meant the same thing as stupid.

    Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
    Discworld No. 15, Men at Arms (1993)

    More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/8103…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #character #forthrightness #frankness #goodnature #honesty #simplicity #straightforwardness

  7. A quotation from Terry Pratchett

       Carrot often struck people as simple. And he was.
       Where people went wrong was thinking that simple meant the same thing as stupid.

    Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
    Discworld No. 15, Men at Arms (1993)

    More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/8103…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #character #forthrightness #frankness #goodnature #honesty #simplicity #straightforwardness

  8. A quotation from Bertrand Russell

    If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts I suppose the first effect would be that almost all friendships would be dissolved.

    Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
    Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 8 “Persecution Mania” (1930)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/russell-bertrand/783…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #candor #discretion #frankness #friendship #mindreading #secrets #telepathy #whitelies

  9. Here's the last Sadler's Lectures podcast episode in the series of nine on Plutarch's work How To Tell A Flatterer From A Friend, this one about the need to rationally moderate one's frankness of speech

    soundcloud.com/gregorybsadler/
    #Plutarch #Podcast #Friendship #Frankness #Criticism #Philosophy #Ethics

  10. Here's the next Sadler's Lectures podcast episode on Plutarch's detour into discussion of frankness of speech in his How To Tell A Flatterer From A Friend. This one looks at how flatterers imitate real frankness

    soundcloud.com/gregorybsadler/
    #Podcast #Plutarch #Frankness #Imitation #Criticism #Friendship #Ethics #Philosophy

  11. We're getting to the end of the series of Sadler's Lectures podcast episodes on Plutarch's How To Tell A Flatterer From A Friend, and shifting topic now to frankness of speech (parrhēsia). Here's the first episode on that

    soundcloud.com/gregorybsadler/
    #Podcast #Plutarch #Frankness #Ethics #Criticism #Philosophy #Friendship

  12. What do good judges of souls and lives need? According to Socrates, knowledge (epistēmē) good will (eunoia), & frankness of speech (parrhēsia). Here's a Sadler's Lectures podcast episode looking at his discussion in the Gorgias

    soundcloud.com/gregorybsadler/
    #Podcast #Philosophy #Plato #Socrates #Rhetoric #Knowledge #GoodWill #Frankness

  13. Continuing on with the series on Plutarch's great text How To Tell A Flatterer From A Friend, here's a video on his discussion of how flatterers imitate frankness of speech, a key element of friendship

    youtu.be/caMnuljr3AA
    #Video #Plutarch #Flattery #Friendship #Frankness

  14. In How To Tell A Friend From A Flatterer, Plutarch gives a number of good reasons why friendship requires frankness of speech (parrhesia). But he spends equal time stressing that this doesn't mean anything goes in criticism! Legitimate limits and a sense of proportion are needed.

    youtu.be/1Vz6fcfy9WA
    #Video #Philosophy #Plutarch #Frankness #Criticism #Parrhesia #Friendship

  15. In How To Tell A Friend From A Flatterer, Plutarch gives a number of good reasons why friendship requires frankness of speech (parrhesia). But he spends equal time stressing that this doesn't mean anything goes in criticism! Legitimate limits and a sense of proportion are needed.

    youtu.be/1Vz6fcfy9WA
    #Video #Philosophy #Plutarch #Frankness #Criticism #Parrhesia #Friendship

  16. In How To Tell A Friend From A Flatterer, Plutarch gives a number of good reasons why friendship requires frankness of speech (parrhesia). But he spends equal time stressing that this doesn't mean anything goes in criticism! Legitimate limits and a sense of proportion are needed.

    youtu.be/1Vz6fcfy9WA
    #Video #Philosophy #Plutarch #Frankness #Criticism #Parrhesia #Friendship

  17. In How To Tell A Friend From A Flatterer, Plutarch gives a number of good reasons why friendship requires frankness of speech (parrhesia). But he spends equal time stressing that this doesn't mean anything goes in criticism! Legitimate limits and a sense of proportion are needed.

    youtu.be/1Vz6fcfy9WA
    #Video #Philosophy #Plutarch #Frankness #Criticism #Parrhesia #Friendship

  18. In How To Tell A Friend From A Flatterer, Plutarch gives a number of good reasons why friendship requires frankness of speech (parrhesia). But he spends equal time stressing that this doesn't mean anything goes in criticism! Legitimate limits and a sense of proportion are needed.

    youtu.be/1Vz6fcfy9WA
    #Video #Philosophy #Plutarch #Frankness #Criticism #Parrhesia #Friendship

  19. Got up in front of the camera and the chalkboard to shoot this new core concept video on frankness of speech in Plutarch's How To Tell A Flatterer From A Friend. Feels good to get back to that work after the surgery, but it took it out of me a bit!

    youtu.be/hHojlHd8B4s
    #Frankness #Plutarch #Video #Friendship #Honesty #Criticism

  20. Here's another one-off video on a key discussion in Plato's Gorgias, where Socrates ironically credits Callicles with having three characteristics a good judge of souls needs: knowledge, good will, and frankness of speech

    youtu.be/XCKqgpeEtHU
    #Video #Plato #Souls #Judgment #Knowledge #GoodWill #Frankness #Ethics