“Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
La verdad tiene muy pocos amigos y los muy pocos amigos que tiene son suicidas.
Voces (1943)
“There are very few honest friends—the demand is not particularly great.”
Es gibt wenig aufrichtige Freunde. Die Nachfrage ist auch gering.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 71.
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