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Be content with your present lot, but seek a better one.Taunt no man with his misfortune for fate is common to all and the future is a thing unseen.Bestow your favors on the good; for a goodly treasury is a store of gratitude laid up in the heart of an honest man. If you benefit bad men, you will have the same reward as those who feed stray dogs; for these snarl alike at those who give them food and at the passing stranger; and just so base men wrong alike those who help and those who harm them.1