Jonmac wrote:
>
> ? I leave to the end, one aspect of character I regard of true greatness in a
>man; it
> certainly characterises all the great men I have known. I speak of that which
>makes a man
> a truly free human being. There are people - precious few of them - who are
>truly free. In
> this sense, they desire nothing by way of gain - and having gained, there is
>nothing they
> are not willing to lose. There is no preference or preferment or favour they
>are seeking.
> There is no honour or status or power they are not happy to decline or to
>surrender. They
> tell the truth, whether one wants to hear it or not, whether it makes them
>popular or not.
> For it is the truth and only the truth that sets them free, and in being so
>spoken, the
> truth sets free the one who seeks their counsel. Such people are one's best
>advisers, they
> are undoubtedly one's truest friends.
Makes me want to start spouting Kipling <g>
http://www.engineering.ucsb.edu/~aggarwal/poem.html
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