“If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.”

— Theophrastus

Quoted by Diogenes Laërtius; translation from C. D. Yonge (trans.), The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (London: H. G. Bohn, 1853), p. 196.
Said "when a man preserved a strict silence during the whole of a banquet".

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