“Wit without discretion is a sword in the hand of a fool”
Spanish Proverb
“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
“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.”
“Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action.”
“Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear.”
Chanakya
