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Quotation of the Day for February 28, 2011"For instance, we are told that the famous Athenian Themistocles was endowed with wisdom and genius on a scale quite surpassing belief, and it is said that a certain learned and highly accomplished person went to him and offered to impart to him the science of mnemonics, which was then being introduced for the first time ; and that when Themistocles asked what precise result that science was capable of achieving, the professor asserted that it would enable him to remember everything; and Themistocles replied that he would be doing him a greater kindness if he taught him to forget what he wanted than if he taught him to remember." - Cicero, de Oratore 2.74.299-300, translated by E. W. Sutton. Submitted by: Terry Labach Feb. 24, 2011  |
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