The sting here isn't that truth-telling invites disagreement—it's that truth often wounds *where it touches*, making enemies of those invested in comfortable lies. When a friend tells you that your marriage is failing or your business is doomed, you don't hate them for being wrong; you hate them for being right, and for forcing you to act. A doctor delivering a terminal diagnosis receives more anger than a charlatan offering false hope, even though the doctor offers the only chance at dignity. Plato isn't counseling silence, but rather suggesting that moral courage requires accepting loneliness as the price of honesty.