Quietness
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
quietness · quiet
in the texts
Exhortation to the Newly Baptized
A disposition of calm restraint in words, deeds, speech, and bearing.
Cultivate quietness in your words, quietness in your deeds, likewise in your speech and your gait;
Charmides
Orderly, unhurried behavior proposed by Charmides as his first definition of temperance, refuted through examples where quickness is more honorable than quietness.
And temperance was an honorable thing?
in learning, is facility the more honorable, or difficulty?
They do say, you know, Charmides, that quiet people are temperate: