How is a man, as an intrinsically social animal, to live in relative peace and charity with his neighbors in a world given to passion and conflict?

and of Augustus too.” Yet

He immersed himself in the subtle skills of engaging others, chiefly by offering people that which they value most: an attentive audience to listen to their own visions and views.

“Much better … if our companion views a thing in a light different from what we do, to leave him in quiet possession of his view.17 What is the use of rectifying him if the thing be unimportant; and if important let it pass for the present, and wait a

now,

Leadership, Jefferson was learning, meant knowing how to distill complexity into a comprehensible message to reach the hearts as well as the minds of the larger world.

consideration;

whereupon he was to engraft his own descendants.… We give it to the world under the firmest belief that such a refutation

Benjamin Rush and a few other delegates had met the Massachusetts contingent on the outskirts of Philadelphia. Taking tea