The Beauty of Life
Consider in the streets at nightfall the faces of men and women when it is bad weather, what grace and sweetness they manifest!
19.
Just as iron which is not used grows rusty, and water putrefies and freezes in the cold, so the mind of which no use is made is spoilt.
Fruitless Study
20.
Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.
21.
Truth was the only daughter of time.