Quid? Xenocratis responsum quam laudabile! cum maledico quorundam sermoni summo silentio interesset, uno ex iis quaerente cur solus linguam suam cohiberet, quia dixisse me inquit aliquando paenituit, tacuisse numquam.
And again, how laudable was that answer of Xenocrates! Being present at a backbiting conversation between certain persons, he said absolutely nothing. When one of them asked why he alone held his tongue, he said: Because I have sometimes been sorry I spoke, never that I kept silent.
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