El Filibusterismo
“Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody. ”
“You should not speak ill of an absent friend.”
Ne male loquare absenti amico.
Trinummus, Act IV, sc. 2, line 81.
Trinummus (The Three Coins)
Examples of self-translation (c. 2004), Quotes - Zitate - Citations - Citazioni
“If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.”
Variant: If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it...
“We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.”
On aime mieux dire du mal de soi-même que de n'en point parler.
Maxim 138.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“We’re still humans after all. Some percentage of us are always going to be assholes.”
Source: Nemesis Games (2015), Chapter 1 (p. 20)
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), Ch. 20
“These wretched kings,
Of whom all men speak ill, have oft some good in them.”
Ces malheureux rois,
Dont on dit tant de mal, ont du bon quelquefois.
Le Meunier de Sans-Souci. (Ed. 1818, Vol. III., p. 205).
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 26.
