The Eight Chapter

     DO NOT open your heart to every man, but discuss your affairs with one who is wise and who

fears God. Do not keep company with young people and strangers. Do not fawn upon the rich, and

do not be fond of mingling with the great. Associate with the humble and the simple, with the

devout and virtuous, and with them speak of edifying things. Be not intimate with any woman, but

generally commend all good women to God. Seek only the intimacy of God and of His angels, and

avoid the notice of men.

     We ought to have charity for all men but familiarity with all is not expedient. Sometimes it

happens that a person enjoys a good reputation among those who do not know him, but at the same

time is held in slight regard by those who do. Frequently we think we are pleasing others by our

presence and we begin rather to displease them by the faults they find in us.

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