“So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.”
Marquis De Sade
“We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverable for ourselves and for others.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.”
Sir Walter Scott
“In this case, exercising the discretion that Congress is now encouraging us to exercise, the FBI has determined that allowing the recipient to disclose its identity, and only its identity, will not harm the national security or interfere with an ongoing investigation.”
Brian Roehrkasse
“In a discreet man's mouth, a public thing is private”
Benjamin Franklin
“The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life”
William Shakespeare
“Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”
