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Rh "Besides, who can trust a creature, whether human or not, that has two tongues in a single mouth? As the proverb says:

"Consequently, your conduct makes me fearful for my own person. For

Again:

"After all, this is the very nature of rascals. As the proverb says:

Each self-advertising traitor, Skilful as calumniator, Fate condemns to ruin all Who within his clutches fall.

Oh, any tongue in human mouth
 * That lends itself to slander's cant

Yet does not split a hundred times,
 * Is surely made of adamant.