But nothing will help quite so much as just keeping quiet, talking with other people as little as possible, with yourself as much as possible. For conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor. Nobody will keep the things he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more. Neither will anyone who has failed to keep a story to himself keep the name of his informant to himself. Every person without exception has someone to whom he confides everything that is confided to himself. Even supposing he puts some guard in his garrulous tongue and is content with a single pair of ears, he will still be the creator of a host of later listeners — such is the way in which what was but a little while before a secret becomes common rumor. Seneca
With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.
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Sara Gruen
Then Cassie told her story. The feeling was like gathering up everything she's ever done or felt or known up to that moment and tying it into a ball and pitching it with all her might as far away as she could, and then watching...
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Beth Neff
There is no success where there are no secrets.
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Anonymous
Every woman needs secrets, ' her mother said with a smile then, her eyes meeting Sally's in the rearview mirror. 'Remember that when you're old like me, pumpkin, because the world has a way of making a woman's life everyone else's business--you have to dig...
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J. Courtney Sullivan
There is nothing more destructive to the human soul than the secrets we keep from each other.
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Avi Arad
More Quotes By Seneca
Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
Timendi causa est nescire - Ignorance is the cause of fear.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
