He is good who listens to a good adviser

He is good who listens to a good adviser. But whoever neither thinks for himself nor keeps in mind what another tells him, he is an unprofitable man. Hesiod. Works and Days. Section 274.


Image: Sorrowful Ajax with Termessa and Eurysakes, circa 1791, Water color over graphite, by Asmus Jacob Carstens courtesy of Wikimedia Commons contributor James Steakley.

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