AGAINST LOOSE TALK/SILENCE:

“Being too ready to trust shows shallowness of mind, and sinning harms the sinner. Taking pleasure in evil earns condemnation; by hating gossip one avoids evil. Never repeat what you are told and you will come to no harm; whether to friend or foe, do not talk about it, unless it would be sinful not to, do not reveal it; you would be heard out, then mistrusted and in due course you would be hated. Have you heard something? Let it die with you. Courage! It will not burst you! A fool will suffer birth pangs over a piece of news, like a woman laboring with child. Like an arrow stuck in the flesh of the thigh, so is a piece of news inside a fool” {Sirach 19:4-12}