Boethius

Speak out and hide it not within.

~ Homer

If you want the doctor's help, you must reveal the wound.

It is always the unfortunate wo are first to be deserted by the goodwill of others.

However, it is not simply a case of you having been banished far from your home; you have wandered away yourself, or if you prefer to be thought of as having been banished, it is you yourself that have been the instrument of it.

You seem to have forgotten the oldest law of your community, that any man who has chosen to make his dwelling thre has the sacred right never to be banished.  So there can be no fear of exile for any man within its walls and moat.  On the other hand, if anyone stops wanting to live there, he authomatically stops deserving it.

.... the major cause of your illness; you have forgotten your true nature.

Commit your boat to the winds and you must sail whichever way they blow, not just where you want.

Shall man's insatiable greed bind me to a constancy which is aline to my ways?  

Rapacious greed soon swallows all

And opens other gaping mouths;

No reins will serve to hold in check

The headlong course of appetite

Once such largeness has fanned the flames

Of lust to have and hold;

No man is rich who shakes and groans

Convinced that he needs more ...

.... man towers above the rest of creation so long as he recognizes his own nature, and when he forgets it, he sinks lower than the beasts.  for other living things to be ignorant of themselves, is natural; but for man it is a defect.

The friend that success brings you becomes your foe in time of misfortune. And there is no evil more able to do you injury than a friend turn foe.

The Consolation of Philosophy