Silence
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
The true genius shudders at incompleteness — and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.
A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.