“To think is to submit to the whims and commands of an uncertain health.”
Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
“For in order to command well, we should know how to submit; and he who submits with a good grace will some time become worthy of commanding.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero, book De Legibus
Book III, section 2; translation by Francis Barham
De Legibus (On the Laws)
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