Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar
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  4. In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone. - Carson McCullers

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More Quotes By Pindar
  1. * Pindar, a Thebian Greek wrote (circa 350 B.C.E.) War is sweet to those who have no experience of it. But the experienced man trembles exceedingly in his heart at its approach.

  2. Creatures of a day. What is someone? What is no one? Man is the dream of a shadow.

  3. Creatures of a day, what is any one? What is he not? Man is but a dream of a shadow. Yet when there comes as a gift of heaven a gleam of sunshine, there rest upon men a radiant light and, aye, a gentle life.

  4. Steer your boat with justice: forge A tongue on truth's anvil.

  5. There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand they strain into the future hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes.

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