While extremely sensitive as to the slightest approach to
slander, you must also guard against an extreme into which some people fall
who, in their desire to speak evil of no one, actually uphold and speak well of
vice. If you have to do with one who is
unquestionably a slanderer, do not excuse him by calling him frank and
free-spoken; do not call one who is notoriously vain, liberal and elegant; do
not call dangerous levities mere simplicity; do not screen disobedience under
the name of zeal; or arrogance, of frankness; or evil intimacy, of friendship. No, my friends, we must never, in our wish to
shun slander, foster or flatter vice in others: but we must call evil evil, and
sin sin, and so doing we shall serve God's glory.
-- François de Sales in Introduction to the Devout
Life
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