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The Epistles of Ignatius

Ignatius of Antioch · c. 30–107 · early-church-fathers

Chapter XV.

It is better that a man should be silent while he is something, than that he should be talking when he is not; that by those things which he speaks he should act, and by those things of which he is silent he should be known.

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