Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Maxim 1060.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.[714:4]

Maxim 1070.

Keep the golden mean[714:5] between saying too much and too little.

Maxim 1072.

Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.

Maxim 1073.

Footnotes

[708:1] Commonly called Publius, but spelled Publilius by Pliny (Natural History, 35, sect. 199).

[708:2] We always like those who admire us.—Rochefoucauld: Maxim 294.