如果一个人向您报告，某个人对您说生病了，请不要对所告诉您的内容做出任何辩护：但是回答，这个人不知道我的其余缺点，因为他不会只提到这些。
(If a man has reported to you, that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make any defense to what has been told you: but reply, The man did not know the rest of my faults, for he would not have mentioned these only.)