With your rivals out of prudence,with others for the sake of appearance.There is always time to add a word,never to withdraw one.Talk as if you were making your will:the fewer words the less litigation.In trivial matters exercise yourself for the more weighty matters of speech.Profound secrecy has some of the luster of the divine.He who speaks quickly soon falls of fails.
123.慎言
说话要小心,跟对手这样是出于谨慎,跟其他人则是为了体面。总有多言的时候,绝无收回的机会。说话要像写遗嘱一样:言辞愈少,争讼愈小。要在琐事上锻炼自己,为的是说更重大的事。莫测高深,颇有几分神性的风采。快言快语的人,败得也快。