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  1. A quotation from La Rochefoucauld

    True eloquence consists in saying all that need be said and no more.
     
    [La véritable éloquence consiste à dire tout ce qu’il faut, et à ne dire que ce qu’il faut.]

    François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
    Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶250 (1665-1678) [tr. FitzGibbon (1957)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…

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  2. A quotation from La Rochefoucauld

    True eloquence consists in saying all that need be said and no more.
     
    [La véritable éloquence consiste à dire tout ce qu’il faut, et à ne dire que ce qu’il faut.]

    François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
    Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶250 (1665-1678) [tr. FitzGibbon (1957)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #communication #discretion #eloquence #necessary #needful #propriety #requirement #silence #speaking

  3. A quotation from La Rochefoucauld

    True eloquence consists in saying all that need be said and no more.
     
    [La véritable éloquence consiste à dire tout ce qu’il faut, et à ne dire que ce qu’il faut.]

    François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
    Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶250 (1665-1678) [tr. FitzGibbon (1957)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #communication #discretion #eloquence #necessary #needful #propriety #requirement #silence #speaking

  4. A quotation from La Rochefoucauld

    True eloquence consists in saying all that need be said and no more.
     
    [La véritable éloquence consiste à dire tout ce qu’il faut, et à ne dire que ce qu’il faut.]

    François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
    Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶250 (1665-1678) [tr. FitzGibbon (1957)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #communication #discretion #eloquence #necessary #needful #propriety #requirement #silence #speaking

  5. A quotation from Euripides

    MEDEA: I think the unjust man who can speak cleverly
       incurs the greatest penalty for, feeling confident
       to cloak injustice in fair speech,
       he dares the utmost villainy.
     
    [ΜΉΔΕΙΑ: ἐμοὶ γὰρ ὅστις ἄδικος ὢν σοφὸς λέγειν
       πέφυκε, πλείστην ζημίαν ὀφλισκάνει:
       γλώσσῃ γὰρ αὐχῶν τἄδικ᾽ εὖ περιστελεῖν
       τολμᾷ πανουργεῖν.]

    Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
    Medea [Μήδεια], l. 580ff (431 BC) [tr. Ewans (2022)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/euripides/81800/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #euripides #medea #argument #boldness #coverup #debate #deceit #deception #dishonesty #eloquence #emboldening #evil #evildoer #fasttalker #glibness #injustice #justification #knavery #persuasion #silvertongue #smoothtalker #talkaway #wrongdoer

  6. A quotation from Euripides

    MEDEA: I think the unjust man who can speak cleverly
       incurs the greatest penalty for, feeling confident
       to cloak injustice in fair speech,
       he dares the utmost villainy.
     
    [ΜΉΔΕΙΑ: ἐμοὶ γὰρ ὅστις ἄδικος ὢν σοφὸς λέγειν
       πέφυκε, πλείστην ζημίαν ὀφλισκάνει:
       γλώσσῃ γὰρ αὐχῶν τἄδικ᾽ εὖ περιστελεῖν
       τολμᾷ πανουργεῖν.]

    Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
    Medea [Μήδεια], l. 580ff (431 BC) [tr. Ewans (2022)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/euripides/81800/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #euripides #medea #argument #boldness #coverup #debate #deceit #deception #dishonesty #eloquence #emboldening #evil #evildoer #fasttalker #glibness #injustice #justification #knavery #persuasion #silvertongue #smoothtalker #talkaway #wrongdoer