A sage thing is timely silence, and better than any speech.
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The talkative listen to no one, for they are ever speaking. And the first evil that attends those who know not how to be silent, is, that they hear nothing.
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Pythagoras, when he was asked what time it was, answered that it was the soul of this world.
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It is better to have no opinion of God at all than such as one as is unworthy of him for the one is only unbelief - the other is contempt
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It is the admirer of himself, and not the admirer of virtue, that thinks himself superior to others
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