Plutarch Quotes About Silence

Quotes about: Silence

• It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.

  Plutarch

  Wise, Silence, Speak

  "Moralia". Book by Plutarch. Chapter "The Education of Children",

• Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

  Plutarch

  Silence, Speech, Seasons

  Plutarch (1909). “Plutarch's Complete Works”

• A prating barber asked Archelaus how he would be trimmed. He answered, "In silence."

  Plutarch

  Silence, Would Be, Barbers

  "Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders". 33 Archelaus. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

• Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.

  Plutarch

  Silence, Tongue, Remember

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.257

• 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.

  Plutarch

  Wise, Men, Silence

• 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.

  Plutarch

  Philosophy, Talking, People

  Plutarch (1909). “Plutarch's Complete Works”

• Silence is an answer to a wise man.

  Plutarch

  Wise, Men, Silence

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.70

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