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Notable quotes

“Speak boldly, and speak truly, shame the devil.”
— Beaumont and Fletcher, Wit Without Money (c. 1614; 1639), Act IV, scene 4.
“A heart never created hatred; speech created hatred.”
— Sumerian proverb, Collection I at , .
“Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech.”
— II Corinthians, III. 12.
“It is never so difficult to speak as when we are ashamed of our silence.”
— François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims. No. 178.
“Deus ille princeps, parens rerum fabricatorque mundi, nullo magis hominem separavit a ceteris, quæ quidem mortalia sunt, animalibus, quam dicendi facultate.”
— God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and Architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
“Il faut distinguer entre parler pour tromper et se taire pour être impénétrable.”
— We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

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