Robert Greene's Law 4—Always Say Less than Necessary—uses Coriolanus as its cautionary exhibit: a man whose rhetorical gifts were real but whose compulsion to use them on every occasion became his undoing. The framework treats restraint as a power move, not a weakness, because every extra sentence is another surface for opponents to attack. Silence, in this view, is not absence of argument but the preservation of an undefended position.
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