And, as expected, via negativa is part of classical wisdom. For the Arab scholar and religious leader Ali Bin Abi-Taleb (no relation), keeping ones d… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Keeping ones distance from an ignorant person is equivalent to keeping company with a wise man.

keeping one’s distance from an ignorant person is equivalent to keeping company with a wise man.

A Kafkaesque World. With the inquisition spirit & the criminalization of politics, you will soon wake up every morning with the question: "Which rule I didn't know existed did I violate yesterday?"

You need to keep reminding yourself of the obvious: charm lies in the unsaid, the unwritten, and the undisplayed. It takes mastery to control silence.
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I'd rather live in a society where people complain about lawyers than one in which they don't.