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• Who makes quick use of the moment, is a genius of prudence. -- Johann Kaspar Lavate
• He knows not when to be silent who knows not when to speak. -- Publius Syrus (42 BC) -- Maxim 930
• He is nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent.
  -- Marcus Porcius Cato (234-149 BC), attributed...
• He is nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent.
  -- Marcus Porcius Cato, (234-149 BC), Roman statesma...
• Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself.
  Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?...
• He who when called upon to speak a disagreeable truth, tells it boldly and has done, is both bolder and milder than he who nibbles in a low voice and never ceases nibbling.
  -- Lavate...
• He who knows how to be poor knows everything. -- Jules Michelet (1798-1847)