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  • For the hypocrite died in saying “if,” and from saying “if” he won nothing but remorse.
  • Parable.
  • A certain stranger was hastily seeking a house: a friend took him to a house in ruins.
  • He said (to the stranger), “If this (house) had a roof, it would be a home for you beside me. 740
  • Your family too would be comfortable, if it had another room in it.”
  • “Yes,” said he, “it is nice (to be) beside friends, but my dear soul, one cannot lodge in ‘if’.”
  • All the world are seekers of happiness, and on account of a false happiness they are in the fire.
  • Old and young have become gold-seekers, but the common eye does not distinguish alloy from gold.
  • The pure (gold) shot a beam on the alloy: see that you choose not the gold on the ground of (mere) opinion, without a touchstone. 745
  • If you have a touchstone, choose; otherwise, go, devote yourself to him that knows (the difference).
  • Either you must have a touchstone within your own soul, or if you know not the Way, do not go forward alone.