Esse artigo me fez lembrar de Marco Aurelio, que agradeceu aos deuses por nao ter o dom da oratoria...

"That I was no great proficient in the study of rhetoric and poetry, and of other faculties, which perchance I might have dwelt upon, if I had found myself to go on in them with success."

E mais pra frente ele diz:

"No man can admire thee for thy sharp acute language, such is thy natural disability that way. Be it so: yet there be many other good things, for the want of which thou canst not plead the want or natural ability. Let them be seen in thee, which depend wholly from thee; sincerity, gravity, laboriousness, contempt of pleasures; be not querulous, be Content with little, be kind, be free; avoid all superfluity, all vain prattling; be magnanimous. Doest not thou perceive, how many things there be, which notwithstanding any pretence of natural indisposition and unfitness, thou mightest have performed and exhibited, and yet still thou doest voluntarily continue drooping downwards?"

Por que se preocupar com a sua falta de talento na oratoria, se ha' tantas outras faculdades -- mais importantes! -- a serem desenvolvidas?