Stultitiam simulare loco prudentia summa est.

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To pretend stupidity at the right time, in the right place, is the highest kind of wisdom.

Comment: To feign such "stupidity" means that one has been able to discern, in a given situation, that pretending docility and acting like one needs "guidance" from another, dangerous, or truly foolish, individual will actually invite him/her to reveal things that otherwise would be concealed. In a variety of forms, this is Socrates simply asking questions.

That is a rare wisdom, a special discernment. Otherwise, the ego likes to speak, to be in charge, to defend itself as important. And when it does, the fool becomes an adversary like a mirror--reflecting back the show, but revealing little to an ego that simply revels in its own image.