Source: The Idea of History (1946), p. 10
“If a man has reported to you, that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make any defense (answer) to what has been told you: but reply, The man did not know the rest of my faults, for he would not have mentioned these only.”
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tr. George Long (1888)
The Enchiridion (c. 135)
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