- In your job, trade, craft, or profession be skilled, efficient, earnest,
knowledgeable. Protect your income. Spend in proportion to your income, not
too much, not too little. Do not be avaricious. Do not hoard wealth. Do not
be extravagant, but live within your means.
- Associate with good friends who are faithful, learned, virtuous, liberal,
intelligent and those who will help you along the right path and away from
evil.
- Have faith and confidence in moral, spiritual, and intellectual values.
- Practice charity and generosity without attachment to wealth or craving
for wealth.
- Cultivate wholesomeness by giving useful things to those who are in need:
food, clothing, money. Be charitable even if you are poor, but not to the
detriment of your own welfare.
- A truly virtuous person helps those in need purely out of compassion, not
out of the hope for personal gain or the accumulation of merit, and without
caring whether one's generosity is seen or acknowledged.
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