He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.

About Ausonius

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Decimus Magnus Ausonius (; c. 310 – c. 395) was a Roman poet and teacher of rhetoric from Burdigala, Aquitaine (now Bordeaux, France). For a time, he was tutor to the future Emperor Gratian, who afterwards bestowed the consulship on him. His best-known poems are Mosella, a description of the...

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Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

—Abraham Lincoln

Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

—Abraham Lincoln

Silence is a text easy to misread.

—A. A. Attanasio

We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

—Hugh Elliott

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