As to yourself, although you should live in such a way that you trust your own self with nothing which you could not entrust even to your enemy, yet, since certain matters occur which convention keeps secret, you should share with a friend at least all your worries and reflections.
Where these words come from
- Lots of sources credit Seneca with this, and they agree with each other. The book or the speech it first came from hasn't turned up yet.
- https://monadnock.net/seneca/3.html
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