Don't be greedy about a division;
don't become covetous except for what you have.
Don't become greedy about your neighbors:
respect is greater for kindness than force.
[He who undercuts his neighbors]1 is small
and devoid of what contention might get.
A little of [what one is grasping about]2
is what creates strife out of [placidity.]3
1) literally: "who goes out under his neighbors"
2) literally: "what is grasped about"
3) literally: "coolness of belly."
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That couple is very efficient. Once I had knew an older couple who weren't very happily married. One time his back was out, so he couldn't bend down to put tomatoes in the holes he had dug. So he was digging the holes and she was bending down to put them in. I thought what a fitting irony they would need each other to get a task done.
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