Kaina kai palaia Things new and old, or, A store-house of similies, sentences, allegories, apophthegms, adagies, apologues, divine, morall, politicall, &c. : with their severall applications / collected and observed from the writings and sayings of the learned in all ages to this present by John Spencer ...
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Kaina kai palaia Things new and old, or, A store-house of similies, sentences, allegories, apophthegms, adagies, apologues, divine, morall, politicall, &c. : with their severall applications / collected and observed from the writings and sayings of the learned in all ages to this present by John Spencer ...
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1658.
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[ 1976] Silence, when, and how comendable.
IT is said of the Ambassadors of the King of Persia, that coming to Athens (the
then Metropolis of learning) in the time of the seaven Wisemen, they desired
that every one would deliver in his sentence, that they might report unto their
Master the wisedome of Greece, which accordingly was done, onely one of them
was silent, which the Ambassadors observing, entreated him also to cast in his symbole
with the rest; Tell your Prince (quoth he) there are of the Graecians that
can hold their peace. and certainly there is a time, though an evill one, when a
Prudent Man is to hold his peace, that is, when speaking will do no good; nor
can he be wise that speaks much, nor he known for a Fool that says nothing; It
is a great misery to be a Fool, but it is yet a greater that a Man cannot be a Fool
but the must needs shew it; Some there have been, which have scorned the
opinion of Folly in themselves, yet for a speech wherein they have hoped to shew
most wit, have been censured of extream folly, by one that hath thought him∣self
wiser; and another hearing his sentence again, hath condemned him for
want of wit in censuring; Surely then, he is not a Fool that hath unwise
thoughts, but he that utters them; Even concealed Folly is wisedome, and some∣times Wisedome uttered is Folly: therefore while others care how to speak, let eve∣ry
Mans care be how to hold his peace.