How often do you yield to the urge to voice an opinion? Maybe it is live conversation where someone must be corrected? Or perhaps responding to some inane comment on Facebook.
I confess. Far too often. Many times silence is the better option. I once taped a little reminder to my notebook—STFU (shut up). Hmm, reminder…or reprimand?
John Climacus wrote instructions to monks around 600 CE. 1,500 years ago he noticed,
A man should know that a devil’s sickness is on him if he is seized by the urge in conversation to assert his opinion, however correct it may be.
Faith Venture 
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