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PART I RIGHTEOUSNESS
 

CHAPTER 15

NON-DESIRING OF ANOTHER MAN'S WIFE

141. Behold the men whose eyes are turned towards righteousness and towards wealth: they commit not the folly of desiring another man's wife.

142. Among those that have fallen from virtue there is no greater fool than he that standeth at his neighbour's threshold.

143. Verily they are in the jaws of death who invade the home of an unsuspecting friend.

144. Let a man be ever so great : what availeth it all if he committeth adultery without thinking ever so little of the shame that floweth therefrom?

145. Behold the man who hangeth on to his neighbour's wife because she is accessible: his name is sullied for ever.

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