1. They said, “You kept silent though you were argued with.” I said to them:

    “A reply is the key to the door of evil.”

  2. And silence toward an ignorant or foolish person is honorable;

    In it, too, lies a way to safeguard one’s honor.

  3. Do you not see that lions are feared while they are silent,

    And the dog is shooed away, by my life, while it barks?

Sol 6