{"id":101,"date":"2005-10-09T21:37:06","date_gmt":"2005-10-10T01:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/63.247.138.3\/~drweevil\/?p=101"},"modified":"2007-09-03T17:16:25","modified_gmt":"2007-09-03T21:16:25","slug":"great-minds-think-alike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=101","title":{"rendered":"Great Minds Think Alike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Helmuth, Graf von Moltke (the Elder):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Seneca (the Younger):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Vetus proverbium est gladiatorem in harena capere consilium; aliquid adversarii vultus, aliquid manus mota, aliquid ipsa inclinatio corporis intuentem monet. Quid fieri soleat, quid oporteat, in universum et mandari potest et scribi; tale consilium non tantum absentibus, etiam posteris datur: illud alterum, quando fieri debeat aut quemadmodum, ex longinquo nemo suadebit, cum rebus ipsis deliberandum est.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"blue\">There is an old adage about gladiators, &#8212; that they plan their fight in the ring; as they intently watch, something in the adversary\u2019s glance, some movement of his hand, even some slight bending of his body, gives a warning.  We can formulate general rules and commit them to writing, as to what is usually done, or ought to be done; such advice may be given, not only to our absent friends, but also to succeeding generations.  In regard, however, to that second question, &#8212; when or how your plan is to be carried out, &#8212; no one will advise at long range; we must take counsel in the presence of the actual situation.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"right\"><em>Epistulae Morales<\/em> 22.1-2, tr. Richard C. Gummere, Loeb Classical Library, 1917<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helmuth, Graf von Moltke (the Elder): No battle plan survives contact with the enemy. Seneca (the Younger): Vetus proverbium est gladiatorem in harena capere consilium; aliquid adversarii vultus, aliquid manus mota, aliquid ipsa inclinatio corporis intuentem monet. Quid fieri soleat, quid oporteat, in universum et mandari potest et scribi; tale consilium non tantum absentibus, etiam [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}