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 Content preview:  On Monday, January 26, 2015 02:13:27 ravas wrote: > "A doubtful
    friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or > the other,
    and we then know how to meet him." > -Aesop > > Some thoughts for a more
   neutral / modern phrasing: > Let a person be as they choose, and then we know
    how to meet them. > Accept a person as they are, and then we know how to
   meet them. [...] 
 
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On Monday, January 26, 2015 02:13:27 ravas wrote:
> "A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or
> the other, and we then know how to meet him."
> -Aesop
> 
> Some thoughts for a more neutral / modern phrasing:
> Let a person be as they choose, and then we know how to meet them.
> Accept a person as they are, and then we know how to meet them.

I'd have to see the Greek, but I guess the meaning is "Let a man be a certain 
friend or a certain enemy".

lo selsenpi pendo cu xlamau lo selbirti bradi .i .au lo remna cu selbirti 
pendo ja bradi .iseki'ubo ma'a djuno lo du'u penmi ri ta'i makau

mu'omi'e .piier.
-- 
The gostak pelled at the fostin lutt for darfs for her martle plave.
The darfs had smibbed, the lutt was thale, and the pilter had nothing snave.

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