De Abrahamo (grc) (eng)
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20 And moreover, an inferior person runs about to the agora and to the theaters and law courts and council chambers and assemblies and every gathering and association of people, as one who spends his life in meddlesomeness, loosening his tongue for immoderate and endless and indiscriminate talk, confusing everything and mixing it up, blending true (things) with false, spoken (things) with unspoken, public with private, sacred with profane, and the serious with the ridiculous,1 because he has not been educated in the most beautiful thing at the right time – namely silence. But he has sharpened his ears for the sake of meddlesome curiosity