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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=512237" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ch 07 On The Effects Of Education Story 05</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The son of a pious man inherited great wealth left him by some uncles, whereon he plunged into dissipation and profligacy, became a spendthrift and, in short, left no heinous transgression unperpetrated and no intoxicant untasted. I advised him and said: ‘My son, income is a flowing water and expense a turning mill; that is to say, only he who has a fixed revenue is entitled to indulge in abundant expenses.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> ‘If thou hast no income, spend but frugally <br> Because the sailors chant this song: <br> “If there be no rain in the mountains <br> The bed of the Tigris will be dry in one year.” </div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Follow wisdom and propriety, abandon play and sport because thy wealth will be exhausted, whereon thou wilt fall into trouble and will repent.’ The youth was prevented by the delights of the flute and of drink from accepting my admonition but found fault therewith, saying that it is contrary to the opinion of intelligent men to embitter present tranquillity by cares concerning the future:</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Why should possessors of enjoyment and luck <br> Bear sorrow for fear of distress? <br> Go, be merry, my heart-rejoicing friend. <br> The pain of tomorrow must not be eaten today. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And how could I restrain myself, who am occupying the highest seat of liberality, have bound the knot of generosity and the fame of whose beneficence has become the topic of general conversation?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Who has become known for his liberality and generosity <br> Must not put a lock upon his dirhems. <br> When the name of a good fellow has spread in a locality <br> The door cannot be dosed against it. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">When I perceived that he did not accept my advice and that my warm breath was not taking effect upon his cold iron, I left off admonishing him and turned away my face from his companionship, acting according to the words of philosophers, who said: Impart to them what thou hast and if they receive it not, it is not thy fault.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Although thou knowest thou wilt not be heard, say <br> Whatever thou knowest of good wishes and advice. <br> It may soon happen that thou wilt behold a silly fellow <br> With both his feet fallen into captivity, <br> Striking his hands together, and saying: ‘Alas, <br> I have not listened to the advice of a scholar.’ </div><div style="margin:10px 0">After some time I saw the consequences of his dissolute behaviour-which I apprehended-realized. When I beheld him sewing patch upon patch and gathering crumb after crumb, my heart was moved with pity for his destitute condition, in which I did not consider it humane to scratch his internal wounds with reproaches or to sprinkle salt upon them. Accordingly, I said to myself:</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> A foolish fellow in the height of intoxication <br> Cares not for the coming day of distress. <br> The tree which sheds its foliage in spring <br> Will certainly have no leaves remaining in winter.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Sa+di">Sa di</a><div class=q>
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