[239.] What are the three wealths of fortunate people? Not hard to tell. A ready conveyance(?), ale without a habitation(?), a safeguard upon the road.
[240.] Three sons whom chastity bears to wisdom: valour, generosity, laughter (filial piety?).
[241.] Three entertainers of a gathering: a jester, a juggler, a lap-dog.
242. Three things that are best for a chief: justice, peace, an army.
[243.] Three things that are worst for a chief: sloth, treachery, evil counsel.
[244.] The four deaths of judgment: to give it in falsehood, to give it without forfeiture, to give it without precedent, to give it without knowledge.
245. Three things that ruin wisdom: ignorance, inaccurate knowledge, forgetfulness.
[246.] Three nurses of dignity: a fine figure, a good memory, piety.
[247.] Three nurses of high spirits: pride, wooing, drunkenness.
[248.] Four hatreds of a chief: a silly flighty man, a slavish useless man, a lying dishonourable man, a talkative man who has no story to tell.[121] For a chief does not grant speech save to four: a poet for satire and praise, a chronicler of good memory for narration and story-telling, a judge for giving judgments, an historian for ancient lore.[122]