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160. When a bad tank is full of water, certainly it will break 

 out on any side. They that grow rich, seldom leave a posterity. 



161. Seldom is found a rich man, that has children also ; but 

 if he has both, he is often destroyed by an enemy. "When one is 

 happy in every respect, it happens frequently that such a man is 

 carried off by an early death. 



1 62. Therefore a wise man must acquire moral merits ; it is only 

 virtue that is the cause of every happiness (or prosperity), when 

 a man is prosperous in every respect, it is the sign of his having 

 acquired moral merits. 



163. He that thinks thus : I will deceive him, he deceives him- 

 self. If one has told one falsehood, afterwards, though he speak 

 the truth, he will be doubted. 



