A Quote by Sextus Propertius
Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.
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Never speak ill of an absent friend.
The absent feel and fear every ill.
People who say not to speak ill of the dead are hypocrites, because you can take it ot the bank they're thinking ill.
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.
He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel.
If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.
Do you want to injure someone's reputation? Don't speak ill of him, speak too well.
Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
Speak not evil of the absent for it is unjust.
We have people there who do have substantial wisdom and substantial experience. And if they were confident enough to express their own views, that they wouldn't be bushwhacked by the party for casting a single vote like Bob Bennett was or like I was, they'd be willing to speak up and they'd be willing to speak their consciences and put their ideas on the line. But right now, there is timidity, there is fear that if they do that a single votes gonna cost them their job and they're not willing to make that kind of a sacrifice and they're not enough with the people.
A Latin phrase says: De mortuis nil nisi bonum, Speak no ill of the dead. But it is better to say this way: Speak the truth of the living and speak the truth of the dead!
Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.
For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord.
I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody.
The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. Let us not then speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier than its predecessors. Let us not speak well of it either. Let us not speak of it at all. It is true the population has increased.
We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.
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