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  • The intelligent man is he who hath the lamp: he is the guide and leader of the caravan.
  • That leader is one who goes after his own light: that selfless traveller is the follower of himself.
  • He is the one that puts faith in himself; and do ye too put faith in the light on which his soul has browsed. 2190
  • The other, who is the half-intelligent, deems an (entirely) intelligent person to be his eye,
  • And has clutched him as the blind man clutches the guide, so that through him he has become seeing and active and illustrious.
  • But (as for) the ass who had not a single barley-corn's weight of intelligence, who possessed no intelligence himself and forsook the intelligent (guide),
  • (Who) knows neither much nor little of the way (and yet) disdains to go behind the guide,
  • He is journeying in a long wilderness, now limping in despair and now (advancing) at a run. 2195
  • He hath neither a candle, that he should make it his leader, nor half a candle, that he should beg a light.
  • He hath neither (perfect) intelligence, that he should breathe the breath of the living, nor hath he a half-intelligence, that he should make himself dead.