"Rulers ought also to guard with anxious thought not only against saying in any way what is wrong, but against uttering even what is right overmuch and inordinately; since the good effect of things spoken is often lost, when enfeebled to the hearts of hearers by the incautious importunity of loquacity: and this same loquacity, which knows not how to serve for the profit of the hearers, also defiles the speaker."
Gregory the Great
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St. Gregory the Great, The Book of Pastoral Rule, 2.4.
I hope that's just a bad translation. Irony anyone?
I sory of like its wordiness. "Loquacity" ... it just roles off the tongue.
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