Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
““never ask a man if he is from Sparta: If he were, he would have let you know such an important fact—and if he were not, you could hurt his feelings.” Likewise, never ask a trader if he is profitable; you can easily see it in his gesture and gait.””
![“We remember the Spartan ambassador who, being asked in whose name he had come, replied: ‘In the name of the State, if I succeed; if I fail, in my own.’ [See Plutarch, ‘Lycurgus’, Lives, tr. J. Langhorne and W. Langhorne (London: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, nd [1898]), pp. 40–1:” quote by Michael Oakeshott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/cce/michael-oakeshott-23288_quote_we-remember-the-spartan-ambassador-who-b_3022357.jpg)
