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314: EELIGHON OF THE NOBTHMEN.
"With arms and clothing shall friends gladden
each other. They who give and receire gifts in re-
turn, are friends the longest, if all other thrags be
well."
" "With scorn and laughter mock not the stranger
and the wayfarer. He who sits at his own door is
often uncertain who it may be that comes by."
" Scoff not the guest nor spit upon him from the
window ! Be kind to the poor."
A prudent foresight in word and deed,
" The wary guest who comes to the banquet is not
wasteful of words ; he listens with the ear, he sees
with the eye ;
thus the wise man feels about him."
" He talks too much who never ceases his vain
flow of words. The flippant tongue, unless it be
checked, often runs itself into mischief."
" From thy weapons on the field move not a footbreadth,;
for it is uncertain how soon upon the way
out the spear may be needed."
Temperance, not only in the gratification of the
senses, but in the exercise of power.
" No heavier burden is borne by man than immod-
erate drinking ; nor is ale so good as it is said for
the sons of men. The more one drinks the less he
knows, until his understanding is gone."
" The bird of forgetfulness hovers over the drinking
room and steals away the senses of men."
" The herd knows when to go home and it leaves
the pasture ; but the foolish man knows not the mea-
sure of his stomach."
" The gluttonous man, unless he makes use of his
reason, eats his own death. To the Wise the stomach
of the stupid wan often brings laughter."
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