Fourth Division Nezikin
Mishna 5-7:
5. Hillel said: keep not aloof from the congregation and trust not in thyself until the day of they death, andjudge not thy fellow until though art come to his place, and say not of a thing which cannot be understood that it will be nderstood inteh end; and say not, When I haev leisure I will study: perchancethou wilt never have leisure.
6. He used to say: A brutish man dreads not sin, and an ignorant man cannot be saintly, and the shamefasat man cannot learn, and the impatient man cannot teach, and he that engages overmuch in trade cannot become wise; and where there are no men strive to be a man.
7. Moreover he saw a skull floating on the face of the water and he said unto it, 'Because thou dorwnest they drowned thee and at the last they that drowned thee shall be drowned.' He used to say: The more flesh the more worms; the more possessions the more care; the more women the more witchcrafts; the more bondwomen the more lewdness; the more bondmen the more thieving; the more study of the Law the more life; the more schooling the more widom; the more counsel the more understanding; the more righteousness the mroe peace. If a man has gained a good name he has gained for himself; if he has gained himself wodrs the Law has gained for himself life in the world to come.
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