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Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, Act 5, Scene 2, on the difficulty of frank speech: CLEOPATRA I dreamt there was an emperor Antony. O, such another sleep, that I might see But such another man. DOLABELLA If it might please you— CLEOPATRA His face was as the heavens, and therein stuck A sun and moon, which kept their course and lighted The little O, the Earth. DOLABELLA Most sovereign creature— CLEOPATRA His legs bestrid the ocean, his reared arm Crested the world. His voice was propertied As …

Show Notes: Footnote 22, and why it's easy to relate good news. Dewitt cites Exordium by the Athenian statesman Demosthenes: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/h…9.01.0067%3Aexordium%3D54 (Quote) The Grey-Rock method; when honesty is not the best policy https://www.psychologytoday.co…-rock-approach-might-help Lucy Hutchinson on why she translated Lucretius, in her letter to the Earl of Anglesey https://www.she-philosopher.co…y/hutchinson-ltr_Pt2.html (Quote) On Shooting the Messenger; (Quote)

VS62 also relates to the issue of honesty and frankness of speech, and when it is best to hold back; "If the anger of parents against their children is justified, it is quite pointless for the children to resist it and to fail to ask forgiveness. If the anger is not justified but is unreasonable, it is folly for an irrational child to appeal to someone deaf to appeals and not to try to turn it aside in other directions by a display of good will."

Horace, on his father; (Quote)