“A person may talk much and so lose the virtue of silence and thinking and contemplation, and a person may keep silent, and so lose the virtue of speaking a word of benefit, or a word of comfort, or a word of advice, as he loses witnessing to the truth… The wholesome personality, however, knows when to keep silent and when to speak; he does not keep silent when speaking is better, and he does not speak when silence is better.”

H.H. Pope Shenouda III

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