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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.
