Éminence Grise or Consigliere
The wisdom of our counselors and advisors
“An nescis, mi fili, quantilla prudentia mundus regatur?”
[“Do you not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?”]
— Axel Oxenstierna, 1648
This week has been like a mini-course in Latin here at Timeless & Timely. We began the theme with advocatus diaboli (devil’s advocate) and now we’re concluding with an Oxenstierna quote.
