No matter the forum, choose your words wisely.
That's the advice of 17th century Jesuit Balthasar Gracian in The Art of Worldly Wisdom.
"There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one," Gracian says.
So be prudent when you speak, particularly when your audience doesn't agree with you; and, when it does, speak only "for the sake of appearance."
"Talk as if you were making your will: the fewer words, the less litigation."
And make good use of everyday conversation, because every encounter is another chance to rehearse for "more weighty matters of speech."
Blabbermouths don't have much future, Gracian says.
"He who speaks lightly soon falls or fails."
And make good use of everyday conversation, because every encounter is another chance to rehearse for "more weighty matters of speech."
Blabbermouths don't have much future, Gracian says.
"He who speaks lightly soon falls or fails."
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