#safest

It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue. ↗

— Sydney Smith

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Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger. ↗

— Silius Italicus

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