Quote #47
Taciturnitas stulto homini pro sapientia est.
More from Publilius Syrus
- Stultum facit fortuna, quem vult perdere.
- It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
- Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
- Proximum ab innocentia tenet locum verecunda peccati confessio.
- Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it.
- I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
- Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.
- Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.