{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/arw/arw28.htm","path":"isl/arw/arw28.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/arw/arw28.htm","text":"Arabian Wisdom, by John Wortabet, [1913]\nTo keep a secret is a divine law.\nA secret is a trust, and to betray it is perfidy.\nThe least of all noble traits is to keep a secret, and the greatest is to forget it.\nHe controls himself most who hides a secret from his friends.\nWhen a secret is known to more than two, it becomes public.\nHe who seeks a place to hide his secret reveals it.\nWalls have ears.\nIt is unwise to confide a secret to two tongues and four ears.\nYour secret is your captive, betray it and you become its captive.\nA man should be a tomb in which a secret is deposited.\nIf you keep your secret you are safe, and it will be to your sorrow if you reveal it.\nHearts are the depositaries of secrets, lips their locks, and tongues their keys.\nThe hearts of the wise are the fortresses of secrets.","title":"Arabian Wisdom: Truthfulness to Secrets","type":"page"}