Letter 64: Do not ask for great things.
Synesius of Cyrene→Joannes|c. 407 AD|Synesius of Cyrene
friendship
Letter 64: A Warning
[1] To Joannes
Do not ask great things, for you run two dangers; if successful you wound, and if unsuccessful you are wounded.
Letter 64: A Warning
[1] To Joannes
Do not ask great things, for you run two dangers; if successful you wound, and if unsuccessful you are wounded.
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Letter 64: A Warning
[1] To Joannes
Do not ask great things, for you run two dangers; if successful you wound, and if unsuccessful you are wounded.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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