I forbear to touch at his open, profane, profligate life; because I desire not to rake into the ashes of the dead, and therefore I shall observe this wise maxim: De mortuis nil nisi bonum.
Whether you think with me, I know not; but the famous "De mortuis nil nisi bonum" always appeared to me to savour more of female weakness than of manly reason.
Though I am of opinion with Gilbert Wakefield, that the maxim De mortuis nil nisi VERUM is better than De mortuis nil nisi BONUM, it is with pain that I touch on the reported failing of so truly good a man as Beattie.
Have you never heard the saying: ‘De mortuis nil nisi bonum’?
Senator Foraker said of him, at a critical moment of his public career, "De mortuis nil.
By the testimony of his land-lady in Court, one would not form the best opinion of him; but de mortuis nil nisi bonum.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mortuis" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
