“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.
“Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody. ”
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The Enchiridion (c. 135)
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Maxim 138.
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