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Of what one cannot speak of that one must keep silent. (Ludwig Wittgenstan)[][]
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. (George Bernard Shaw)[][]
Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace...On much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety. (Akhenaton)[][]
Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)[][]
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact. (George Eliot)[][]
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time. (Thomas Carlyle)[][]
There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do. (Vittorio Alfieri)[][]
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own. (Zeno)[][]
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