I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and pass…

Thucydides
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I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind. ✨ Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). The Landmark Thucydides, p.179, Simon and Schuster
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I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind. ✨ Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). The Landmark Thucydides, p.179, Simon and Schuster

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