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"One is merely a drinking companion; one is a friend in name only, who says with his lips, 'dear friend, dear friend'; but he who proves a comrade when needs have arisen — he indeed is a friend.
Sleeping after sunrise, consorting with the wives of others, the pursuit of enmity, harmfulness, bad friends, and hard miserliness — these six grounds bring a man to ruin.
The man of bad friends, of bad companions, of bad conduct and resort, falls to ruin from both worlds — from this world and from the next.
Dice and women, liquor, dancing and singing, sleeping by day, indulgence at unseemly hours, bad friends, and hard miserliness — these six grounds bring a man to ruin.
They play at dice, they drink liquor, they go to women who are dear as life itself to others; consorting with the base and not consorting with the mature, one wanes like the moon in the dark fortnight.
He who drinks liquor, poor and destitute, athirst, strayed from his own good, plunges into debt as into water; he will quickly bring disorder upon himself.
Not by one whose habit is sleeping by day, who detests rising at night, ever intoxicated, a drunkard, can a household be maintained.
'Too cold, too hot, too late has it grown' — for young men who thus cast aside their work, opportunities for good pass them by.
But he who regards cold and heat as no more than blades of grass, doing his duties as a man — he does not fall away from happiness."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.