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On Rules for Conduct of Life Speak gracefully and kindly to a low fellow; his pride and obstinacy will augment.

by whomsoever committed is blamable, but more so in learned men, because learning is a weapon for combating Satan, and when the possessor of a weapon is made prisoner, his shame will be greater.

It is better to be an ignorant, poor fellow than a learned man who is not abstemious; because the former loses the way by his blindness, while the latter falls into a well with both eyes open.

bread is not eaten by others while he is alive, he will not be remembered when he is dead. A [destitute] widow knows the delight of grapes, and not the lord of fruits. Joseph the just—salutation to him—never ate to satiety in the Egyptian dearth, for fear he might forget the hungry people.

How can he who lives in comfort and abundance know what the state of the famished is? He is aware of the condition of the poor who has himself fallen into a state of distress.

O thou who art riding a fleet horse, consider that the poor, thorn-carrying ass is in water and mud. Ask not for fire from thy poor neighbour's house, because what passes out of his window is the smoke of his heart.

not a Dervish in poor circumstances, and in the distress of a year of famine, how he feels, unless thou art ready to apply a salve to his wound, or to provide him with a maintenance.