OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 6:13

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13

Separate yourself from your enemies, and beware of your friends.

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Verse 13. Friends. Such as have been just described. Of these the maxim of Bias may be true, that people should “love as if they were to hate,” at some future period. Laert. i.—Entire confidence becomes those who are friends indeed.

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