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“Let friends pleasure each other reciprocally by presents of arms and habits. Those who give and those who receive, continue a long time friends, and often give feasts to each other.


“Love both your friends, and your friends friends: but do not favour the friend of your enemies.


“Peace, among the perfidious continues, for five nights, to shine bright as a flame: but when the sixth night approaches, the flame waxes dim, and is quite extinguished: then all their amity turns to hatred.


“When I was young I wandered about alone: I thought myself rich if I chanced to light upon a companion. A man gives pleasure to another man.


“Let not a man be over wise, neither let him be more curious than he ought. Let him not seek to know his destiny, if he would sleep secure and quiet.


“Rise early, if you would enrich yourself, or vanquish an enemy. The sleeping wolf gains not the prey; neither the drowsy man the victory.