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Jean Racine
Silent anguish is the more dangerous
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Baruch Spinoza
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak
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Epictetus
Silence is safer than speech
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Abraham Lincoln
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool then to speak out and remove all doubt
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Abraham Lincoln
To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards out of men
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Anatole France
Silence is the wit of fools
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Jean Cocteau
Silence moves faster when it's going backward
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Lao-Tze
Silence is a source of great strength
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death
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Friedrich Schiller
Great souls suffer in silence
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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