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• It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
  -- Sophocles (496-406 BC) -- Peleus, Frag. 445...
• If you can not say something far better than silence, than have the common good sense to let silence have the day.
• Thoughts are mightier than strength of hand. -- Sophocles (496-406 BC) -- Phaedra, Frag. 854
• Silence is better than unmeaning words. -- Pythagora
• I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. -- Publius Syrus (42 BC) -- Maxim 1070
• Nothing is more useful than silence. -- Menander (B.C. 342-291)
• Dionysius the Elder, being asked whether he was at leisure, he replied, "God forbid that it should ever befall me!
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Dionysiu...
• Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none; be able for thine enemy rather in power than use
  and keep thy friend under thine own life's key; be checked for silence, but never taxed for speech....
• If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.
  -- Sophocles (496-406 BC) -- Scyrii, Frag. 510...