3. [Trust not to the aid of friends.]

"When thou liest down, keep to thyself thine own heart; for friends

exist not for a man on the day of troubles. I gave to the beggar, and I

made the orphan to exist[246]; I caused the man of no position to obtain

his purpose even as the man of position.

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