Kitap A
145
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
146
A daughter is a possession to her father which is not his own.
147
The same person advised to leave modesty to children rather than gold.
148
The reproach of a father is agreeable medicine, for it contains more that is useful than it contains of that which gives pain.
149
He who has been lucky in a son in law has found a son: but he who has been unlucky, has lost also a daughter.
150
The value of education (knowledge) like that of gold is valued in every place.
151
He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.
152
Nothing among animals is so beautiful as a man adorned by learning (knowledge).See Schweig.’s note.
153
We ought to avoid the friendship of the bad and the enmity of the good.
154
The necessity of circumstances proves friends and detects enemies.
155
When our friends are present, we ought to treat them well; and when they are absent, to speak of them well.
156
Let no man think that he is loved by any man when he loves no man.
157
You ought to choose both physician and friend not the most agreeable, but the most useful.
158
If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
159
Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief.
160
Whoever are least disturbed in mind by calamities, and in act struggle most against them, these are the best men in states and in private life.
161
Those who have been instructed, like those who have been trained in the palaestra, though they may have fallen, rise again from their misfortune quickly and skilfully.
162
We ought to call in reason like a good physician as a help in misfortune.
163
A fool having enjoyed good fortune like intoxication to a great amount becomes more foolish.
164
Envy is the antagonist of the fortunate.
