A Quote by Plautus

Never speak ill of an absent friend.

Plautus

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Absent Friend Ill Never Speak

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Plautus
Roman - Playwright
254 BC - 184 BC

Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.

Sextus Propertius

He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel.

Horace

A FRIEND IS A PERSON . . . With whom you can be sincere. . . . To whom you never need to defend yourself. . . . On whom you can depend whether present or absent. . . . With whom you never need pretend. . . . To whom you can reveal yourself without fear of betrayal. . . . Who does not feel she owns you because you are her friend. . . . Who will not selfishly use you because she has your confidence. I WOULD HAVE SUCH A FRIEND. . . AND I WOULD BE SUCH A FRIEND. I DO HAVE SUCH A FRIEND!

Alfred Armand Montapert

Speak no ill of a friend, nor even of an enemy.

Pittacus of Mytilene

Hear no ill of a friend, nor speak any of an enemy.

Benjamin Franklin

The absent feel and fear every ill.

Miguel de Cervantes

Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body. All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in my life." "I would wish not to be hasty in censuring any one; but I always speak what I think.

Jane Austen

People who say not to speak ill of the dead are hypocrites, because you can take it ot the bank they're thinking ill.

Nora Roberts

I never speak ill of dead people or live judges.

Edwin Edwards

Do not criticize any other martial arts or speak ill of others, as it will surely come back to you. The mountain does not laugh at the river because it is lowly, nor does the river speak ill of the mountain because it can not move.

Koichi Tohei

Never speak ill of yourself, your friends will always say enough on that subject.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for their absence by a false and empty consolation, how much more pleasant are letters which bring us the written characters of the absent friend.