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If anyone thinks it a small and unimportant matter to govern the tongue, another point I promised to touch on, he is very far from the reality.For silence at the proper
season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
And that is, I think, the
reason why the ancients instituted the mysteries that we, learning therein to
be silent, might transfer our secrecy to the gods to human affairs.
And no one ever yet...