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Oriental wisdom enjoins in general withholding truth from the unready, and in particular from those who do not want or seek it, from inebriated or agitated persons, from those in whom lust or greed, wrath or impatience predominates, and, understandably, from lunatics.

-- Notebooks Category 20: What Is Philosophy? > Chapter 3 : Its Requirements > # 24