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«We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.»

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Often attributed to Epictetus, but Diogenes Laertius (VII.23) gives it to Zeno of Citium, founder of Stoicism, addressing a young man who would not stop talking.

المصدر: Diógenes Laercio. Vidas de los filósofos ilustres, VII 23 («Zenón»). Trad. inglesa de R. D. Hicks, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, vol. II, Loeb Classical Library 185. Londres: Heinemann, 1925 (texto en Wikisource).

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