"By Silence, the discretion of a man is known: and a fool, keeping Silence, seemeth to be wise."
— Discretion

January 1, 1970

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Pythagoras, as translated in The Sayings of the Wise: Or, Food for Thought : A Book of Moral Wisdom, Gathered from the Ancient Philosophers (1555) by William Baldwin [1908 edition], p. 103.