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Chapter One
1 Every single person has many dispositions, and each individual is both different and very distant from any other: There is a person who may have a violent temper, always angry; and and there is a person whose mind is at ease and is never angry, and if he will feel anger, it will be a soft anger once in several years. And there is a person who may be very haughty, and there is one who has a very humble disposition. And there is one who may have very strong desires, never satisfied; and there is one who may have a very pure heart, and will not even desire those few things that the body requires. And there is one who may be very greedy, not satisfied by all the money in the world, as it says, "A lover of silver never has his fill of silver". And there is one who may have modest desires, and is satisfied even with a small thing that will not be enough for him, and he will not exert himself to acquire all what he needs.