There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.

[Contre la médisance il n’est point de rempart.]

Molière (1622-1673) French playwright, actor [stage name for Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]
Tartuffe, Act 1, sc. 1, l. 99 (1664)
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Alt. trans.: "Against backbiting there is no bulwark."

 
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