Once you have listened to the gossip for some time, you will soon feel as if you know everyone, even if you have never met them.

About Phocion

Portrait of Phocion

Phocion (; Ancient Greek: Φωκίων Φώκου Ἀθηναῖος Phokion; c. 402 – c. 318 BC), nicknamed The Good (ὁ χρηστός ho khrēstos), was an Athenian statesman and strategos, and the subject of one of Plutarch's Parallel Lives.

More quotations tagged with “gossip”

Many species reciprocate, but only humans gossip, and much of what we gossip about is the vale of other people as partners for reciprocal relationships.

Never tell evil of a man, if you do not know it for certainty, and if you know it for a certainty, then ask yourself, 'Why should I tell it?

—Johann K. Lavater

There is so much good in the worst of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
That it hardly behooves any of us
To talk about the rest of us.

—Edward Wallis Hoch

We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.

—Cato the Elder

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

—Bertrand Russell

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