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Boethius

Si operam medicantis exspectas, oportet vulnus detegas.

If you expect a physician to help you, you must lay bare your wound.

Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy (De consolatione philosophiae, c. 524 A.D.), Prose IV, line 1; translation by W.V. Cooper

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