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331. There is no greater folly than the infatuation that looketh upon the transient as if it were everlasting.

332. The crowd that assembleth to witness a village show, that is the symbol of great riches flowing on a man: and the dispersal of that same crowd is the type of its passing away.

333. Prosperity is transient : if thou have come by it, delay not to do things that are of lasting good.

334. Tine looketh like an innocent thing : but verily it is a saw that is continually sawing away the life of man.

335. Make haste to do good works before the tongue is paralysed and hiccough ariseth in the throat. Rh