18. [Beware of women.]

"If thou wishest to prolong friendship in a house into which thou

enterest as master, as brother, or as friend, [in fact in] any place

that thou enterest, beware of approaching the women: no place in which

that is done prospereth. The face is not watchful in attaining it. A

thousand men are injured in order to be profited for a little moment,

like a dream, by tasting which death is reached."...

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