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Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou shalt be accounted profane; if in the second, dangerous; if in the third, indiscreet and foolish.

Walter Raleigh

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Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious.

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Be wiser than other people, if you can; but do not tell them so.

Earl of Chesterfield

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Better a living dog than a dead lion.

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Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.

Hannah More

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Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

Francis Bacon

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For he that fights and runs away, may live to fight another day, but he, who is in battle slain, can never rise and fight again.

Oliver Goldsmith

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I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you -- it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.

Philip Roth

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Notable talents are not necessarily connected with discretion.

Junius

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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

Jean de La Fontaine

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Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou shalt be accounted profane; if in the second, dangerous; if in the third, indiscreet and foolish.

Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious.

Be wiser than other people, if you can; but do not tell them so.

Better a living dog than a dead lion.

Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

For he that fights and runs away, may live to fight another day, but he, who is in battle slain, can never rise and fight again.

I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you -- it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.

Notable talents are not necessarily connected with discretion.

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.