Plutarch Quotes About Silence
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Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen.
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Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
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A prating barber asked Archelaus how he would be trimmed. He answered, "In silence."
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Euripides was wont to say, silence was an answer to a wise man; but we seem to have greater occasion for it in our dealing with fools and unreasonable persons; for men of breeding and sense will be satisfied with reason and fair words.
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Silence is an answer to a wise man.
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Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.
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It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.
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