A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well. — Gaius Petronius
A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well.
In the original Latin
Nunquam autem recte faciet, qui cito credit.
Satyricon · 66
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Petronius. "The Satyricon." The Satyricon and The Apocolocyntosis of the Divine Claudius, translated by J. P. Sullivan. Penguin Classics, 1986, sect. 43.
Original citation
Petronius. Satyricon, Satyricon liber [The Book of Satyrlike Adventures]. c. 1st century AD, sect. 43.