“Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody. ”
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
“If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.”
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“You should not speak ill of an absent friend.”
Ne male loquare absenti amico.
Trinummus, Act IV, sc. 2, line 81.
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Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer
“To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man.”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
John Adams (1735–1826) 2nd President of the United States
Letter to Thomas Jefferson (15 July 1817)
1810s
“¿Do you think before speaking or do you speak after thinking?”
Mariano Rajoy (1955) Spanish politician
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“Speak no ill of a friend, nor even of an enemy.”
Pittacus of Mytilene Greek sage
As quoted by Diogenes Laërtius, i. 78.
“Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.”
Absenti nemo non nocuisse velit.
Propertius (-47–-16 BC) Latin elegiac poet
II, xix, 32.
Elegies