The Forehead Is The Gate Of The

How Much In Love With Himself, And That Too Without A Rival!

The Roots Of Knowledge Are Bitter, But Its Fruit Are Sweet.

Now In Regard To Trades And Other Means Of Livelihood, Which Ones Are To Be Considered Becoming To A Gentleman And Which Ones Are Vulgar, We Have Been Taught, In General, As Follows. First, Those Means Of Livelihood Are Rejected As Undesirable Which Incur People's Ill-will, As Those Of Tax-gatherers And Usurers. Unbecoming To A Gentleman, Too, And Vulgar Are The Means Of Livelihood Of All Hired Workmen Whom We Pay For Mere Manual Labour, Not For Artistic Skill; For In Their Case The Very Wage They Receive Is A Pledge Of Their Slavery.

In All Matters, Before Beginning, A Diligent Preparation Should Be Made.

There Is No Fortune So Strong That Money Cannot Take It.