450.
Inquire about your neighbour before you build, and about your companions before you travel.
Arabic.
451.
Though you may yourself abound in treasure, teach your son some handicraft; for a heavy purse of gold and silver may run to waste, but the purse of the artisan’s industry can never get empty.
Sa’dī.
452.
It is an observation no less just than common that there is no stronger test of a man’s real character than power and authority, exciting, as they do, every passion, and discovering every latent vice.
Plutarch.