PART II WEALTH
CHAPTER 85
CONCEITED FOLLY
841. The veritable poverty is the poverty of sense : the world regardeth not other poverty as poverty.
842. When a fool bestoweth a gift of his own free will, it is simply the good fortune of the receiver and nothing else.
843. The troubles that a fool bringeth down on his head, it is hard even for his enemies to cause him.
844. Dost thou want to know what is shallowness of wit? It is the conceit that sayeth to itself, I am wise.
845. Behold the fool that pretendeth unto knowledge that be possesseth not : he raiseth doubts even as to those things that he really knoweth.
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