Found in the most unlikely of places...but truth is like that, eh?

[11th_letter]

"Do not ask the stones or the trees how to live, they can not tell you; they do not have tongues; do not ask the wise man how to live for, if he knows, he will know he cannot tell you; if you would learn how to live, do not ask the question; its answer is not in the question but in the answer, which is not in words; do not ask how to live, but,

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[fireglideflht]

Okay sorry every time I see sometihng regarding 'truth' I have to do a Superstar riff; it's in the rules.

"Are you a king?"

"It's you who say I am. I look for truth, and find that I get damned."

"But what is truth? Is truth unchanging law? We both have truths, are mine the same as yours?"

And also remember what happened to a certain mythological oracle; iirc she was stoned for being right and telling the truth...

[11th_letter]

Probably why it says a wise man knows he cannot tell you.