A wound from a tongue is worse than a wound from a sword; for the latter affects only the body, the former, the spirit, the soul.

Pythagoras (c.570 BC - c.495 BC) Greek mathematician and philosopher
(Attributed)

Cited in James Comper Gray, The Biblical Museum, Vol. 5 (1878)

 
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