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)

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Pratchett, Terry - Discworld No. 15, Men at Arms (1993) | WIST Quotations

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

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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)

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A quotation from McLaughlin, Mignon:

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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
»

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https://wist.info/mclaughlin-mignon/73862/

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A quotation from Maurois, Andre:

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Sincerity must be used in moderation, even with our most intimate friends. To be too frank is to put into an opinion what may be simply ill temper; it is to risk losing a friend because of a poorly digested roast, a headache, a thunderstorm.
»

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https://wist.info/maurois-andre/71708/

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Conversation, "Sincerity" (1930) - Maurois, Andre | WIST Quotations

Sincerity must be used in moderation, even with our most intimate friends. To be too frank is to put into an opinion what may be simply ill temper; it is to risk losing a friend because of a poorly digested roast, a headache, a thunderstorm.

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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

https://soundcloud.com/gregorybsadler/plutarch-how-to-tell-a-flatterer-from-a-friend-moderating-frankness-of-speech
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Plutarch, How To Tell A Flatterer From A Friend - Moderating Frankness Of Speech - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Middle Platonist philosopher and biographer Plutarch's essay How To Tell A Flatterer From A Friend This episode focuses specifically on the importanc

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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

https://soundcloud.com/gregorybsadler/plutarch-how-to-tell-a-flatterer-from-a-friend-flatterers-imitation-of-frankness-of-speech
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Plutarch, How To Tell A Flatterer From A Friend - Flatterers' Imitation Of Frankness Of Speech

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Middle Platonist philosopher and biographer Plutarch's essay How To Tell A Flatterer From A Friend This episode focuses specifically on how flatterer

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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

https://soundcloud.com/gregorybsadler/plutarch-how-to-tell-a-flatterer-from-a-friend-friendship-and-frankness-of-speech
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Plutarch, How To Tell A Flatterer From A Friend - Friendship And Frankness Of Speech

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Middle Platonist philosopher and biographer Plutarch's essay How To Tell A Flatterer From A Friend This episode focuses specifically on the importanc

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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

https://soundcloud.com/gregorybsadler/plato-gorgias-knowledge-good-will-and-frankness
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Plato, Gorgias - Knowledge, Good Will, And Frankness - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Plato's dialogue, the Gorgias. This lecture focuses specifically on a passage in the conversation between Socrates and the host of the ev

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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

https://youtu.be/caMnuljr3AA
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Plutarch, How To Tell A Flatterer From A Friend | Flatters' Imitation of Frankness | Core Concepts

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