Maxim 17

  Everyone thinks himself perfect in intellect and his child in

beauty.

        A Jew was debating with a Musalman

        Till I shook with laughter at their dispute.

        The Moslem said in anger: 'If this deed of mine

        Is not correct, may God cause me to die a Jew.'

        The Jew said: 'I swear by the Pentateuch

        That if my oath is false, I shall die a Moslem like thee.'

        Should from the surface of the earth wisdom disappear

        Still no one will acknowledge his own ignorance.