As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.
In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.
Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.
Wise men argue causes; fools decide them.
You find that all men are successes or failures. Success is the stamp of truth. I will say all men who fail to place their feet on the dome of facts do so by not sieving all truth and throwing the faulty to one side.
Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.