Never say about any thing, I have lost it, but say I
have restored it. Is your child dead? It has been restored. Is your wife dead? She has been restored. Has
your estate been taken from you? Has not then this
also been restored? But he who has taken it from me is
a bad man. But what is it to you, by whose hands the
giver demanded it back? So long as he may allow you,
take care of it as a thing which belongs to another, as
travellers do with their inn.
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