Richter.
437.
Experience has always shown, and reason shows, that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed.
Guicciardini.
438.
Give not thy tongue too great a liberty, lest it take thee prisoner. A word unspoken is like thy sword in thy scabbard; if vented, the sword is in another’s hand.* If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise as to hold thy tongue.
Quarles.
* Cf. [221]; also Metastasio:
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Poi richiamar non vale;