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Ch 08 On Rules For Conduct In Life - Maxim 44

Transgression by whomsoever committed is blamable but more so in learned men, because learning is a weapon for combating Satan and, when the possessor of a weapon is made prisoner, his shame will be greater. It is better to be an ignorant poor fellow Then a learned man who is not abstemious; Because the former loses the way by his blindness While the latter falls into a well with both eyes open. THE GULISTAN OF SA'DI Translated by Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890)