It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you: the one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you: the one to slander you, and the other to bring the news to you.
No, 'tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world.
The slanderer and the assassin differ only in the weapon they use; with the one it is the dagger, with the other the tongue. The former is worse that the latter, for the last only kills the body, while the other murders the reputation.