The reason we have two ears and only one mouth is that we may listen the more and talk the less.

Zeno of Citium (334-262 BC) Greek philosopher, founder of the Stoics
In Diogenese Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, 7.1 [tr. R. Hicks (1925)]

 
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