There is no need to slander the nimit (one who is instrumental), it is only necessary to distance yourself from that nimit.

What do the vitarags [the enlightended one] say? If you want to be beaten up, then beat others. If you want to be slandered, then slander someone.

When you slander someone [talk negatively about people], you earn a debit in your account and that person will earn a credit. Who would do these kinds of business?

To talk [negatively] about someone specific is considered slander. You need to have a general understanding about things. Slandering someone is a sign of going to a lower life form in the next birth.

A generous confession disarms slander.

When you are stung by slanderous tongues, comfort yourself with this thought: it is not the worst fruits that are gnawed by wasps.

A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead at first blow, better not strike at it.

Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.

Slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath Rides on the posting winds and doth belie All corners of the world.

Slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession.

Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.

What is slander? A verdict of guilty pronounced in the absence of the accused, with closed doors, without defence or appeal, by an interested and prejudiced judge.

Calumny ever pursues the great, even as the winds hurl themselves on high places.

Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.

People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice.

If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.

Into the space of one little hour sins enough may be conjured up by evil tongues to blast the fame of a whole life of virtue.

Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt: nine out of ten have the inclination.

There is nothing that more betrays a base ungenerous spirit than the giving of secret stabs to a man's reputation. Lampoons and satires, that are written with wit and spirit, are like poisoned darts, which not only inflict a wound, but make it incurable.

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.