Refuse to participate in gossip — tearing down, inflating, and judging other people.

Dissimulate, but do not simulate, disguise your real sentiments, but do not falsify them. Go through the world with your eyes and ears open and mouth mostly shut. When new or stale gossip is brought to you, never let on that you know it already, nor that it really interests you.

Be the same person in public as in private. Speak only what is useful and beneficial. In conversation, avoid idle chatter about horse races, athletes, celebrities, food, and drink. Refuse to participate in gossip — tearing down, inflating, and judging other people. Among friends, shift the conversation to worthy topics; among strangers, stay silent.

If you learn that someone is speaking ill of you, don’t try to defend yourself against the rumours; respond instead with, ‘Yes, and he doesn’t know the half of it, because he could have said more

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it . . .

If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you, but answer: “He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.

You should never boast of what your friends think of you. That is true testimony which comes from the lips of foes. On the contrary, if a friend speaks in your behalf he will be considered not as a witness but a judge or a partisan.

I'm sure all that you've heard is just the usual gossip, invented to injure feelings rather than illuminate truth.

As dear Erasmus said in De Civilitate, “It is safe to admit nothing that might embarrass one if repeated.” Gossip

If you want people to think well of you, do not speak well of yourself.

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken,best tune out.

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

no one ever gossips about the virtues of others

Gossip [is] the Devil's radio: Don't be a broadcaster.