Debate your cause with your neighbor himself; and disclose not a secret to another:
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Stranger. It sometimes happens that friends fall out; but if either disclose the secret of the other, he will be deemed infamous. (Calmet) (Josephus, contra Apion 2.)
St. Ambrose says of his brother Satyrus, "though we had all things in common, yet the secret of our friends was not so."