“There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book II, Ch. 4.
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“Never find fault with the absent.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet
Absenti nemo non nocuisse velit.
Sextus Propertius, Elegies, II, xix, 32, also translated: "Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent".
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“Men wash their hands in blood, as best they can:
I find no fault in this just man.”
Randall Jarrell (1914–1965) poet, critic, novelist, essayist
"Eighth Air Force," lines 16-20
Losses (1948)
Context: For this last savior, man,
I have lied as I lie now. But what is lying?
Men wash their hands in blood, as best they can:
I find no fault in this just man.
“I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman