1. Touch pitch and you blacken your hand;associate with scoundrels and you learn their ways.
2. Do not lift a weight too heavy for you,or associate with anyone wealthier than you.How can the clay pot go with the metal cauldron?When they knock together, the pot will be smashed:
3. The rich do wrong and boast of it,while the poor are wronged and beg forgiveness.
4. As long as the rich can use you they will enslave you,but when you are down and out they will abandon you.
5. As long as you have anything they will live with you,but they will drain you dry without remorse.