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While conversing, remember and try to follow the precept of St. Thalassius who says: ‘Of the five attitudes in conversation with
others, use three with discrimination and without fear; use the fourth infrequently and refrain from using the fifth altogether”
(Philokalia, the first century, 69). One writer understands the first three as follows: ‘yes”, ‘no”, ‘ of course” or ‘this is clearly so”; by
the fourth, he understands doubtful things and by the fifth, things totally unknown. In other words, about things you know for
certain to be true or false, or self-evident, speak with conviction, saying that they are true, or false, or evident. About doubtful things
better say nothing, but when necessary, say that they are doubtful and reserve your judgment. Of what you know nothing, say
nothing. Someone else says: we have five forms’ Or modes of speech: the vocative, when we invoke someone; the interrogative,
when we ask a question; the desiring or soliciting form, when we express a desire or request; the defining, when we express a
decisive opinion on something; the commanding, when masterfully and authoritatively we express a command. Of these five, use
the first three freely; the fourth, as rarely as possible; the fifth, not at all.
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