Today's Stichomancy for Leo Tolstoy

The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Oedipus Trilogy by Sophocles:

Thy knowledge. We are all thy suppliants.

TEIRESIAS Aye, for ye all are witless, but my voice Will ne'er reveal my miseries--or thine. [2]

OEDIPUS What then, thou knowest, and yet willst not speak! Wouldst thou betray us and destroy the State?

TEIRESIAS I will not vex myself nor thee. Why ask Thus idly what from me thou shalt not learn?

OEDIPUS