Commonplace: Gibbon.
Thursday, April 21st, 2011
“Active valor may often be the present of nature;
but … patient diligence can be the fruit only of habit and discipline.”
—Edward Gibbon, History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Brutal honesty, kindly delivered from a working writer in the corporate world.

“Active valor may often be the present of nature;
but … patient diligence can be the fruit only of habit and discipline.”
—Edward Gibbon, History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire