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Quote card: Simonides used to say that he had never been sorry for keeping silence, but many times for having spoken.

“Simonides used to say that he had never been sorry for keeping silence, but many times for having spoken.”

Simonides, as reported by Plutarch, Moralia. Plutarch tells this saying more than once; wording varies between translations.

In a heated moment with a customer or a colleague, a pause rarely needs an apology. Words sometimes do.

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