Sunday, November 13, 2011

"sincerity is always good, oral or written"


Marcus Tullius Cicero "Letters to Friends" CVIII To Lucceius: 

Coram me tecum eadem haec agere saepe conantem deterruit pudor quidam paene subrusticus, quae nunc exprimam absens audacius, epistula enin non erubescit 

I have often tried to say to you personally what I am about to write, but was prevented by a kind of almost clownish bashfulness. Now that I am not in your presence I shall speak out more boldly: a letter does not blush.

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