“Take not thine enemy for thy friend; nor thy friend for thine enemy!”
Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
The Sayings of the Wise (1555)
“Speak no ill of a friend, nor even of an enemy.”
As quoted by Diogenes Laërtius, i. 78.
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