What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.

That of which we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence

Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence.

It is thus quite simply false that whereof one cannot speak (in the sense of 'there is nothing to say about it that specifies it and grants it separating properties'), thereof one must be silent. It must on the contrary be named.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.

In such times, if you want neither to lie nor to wound, you are reduced to being silent.

Only the person who is essentially capable of remaining silent is capable of speaking essentially.

To be silent. In hopes of not offending, in hopes of being accepted.

But what happened to people who never spoke, never raised their voices? Kept everything inside?

Gamache knew what happened. Everything they swallowed, every word, thought, feeling rattled around inside, hollowing the person out. And into that chasm they stuffed their words, their rage.

To hear, one must be silent.

The law of silence: Speak little. Say only what you must. Speak only when necessary. Your oratory should be deeds, not words. You accomplish: let others talk.

There shall always be much silence in a man's conduct. He shall speak only about a matter concerned with wisdom or matters that are necessary to keep his body alive.

Let us sculpt in hopeless silence all our dreams of speaking.

Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything.

Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen.