First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
— Epictetus
Discourses, Book 2
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4 quotes on speech from the Stoic tradition.
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
Discourses, Book 2
Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
Enchiridion, Chapter 33
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
Fragments
If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.
Meditations, Book XII