ABSTRACT

He who travels learns to distinguish between good people and bad, whereas he who stays at home will not know when rascals from other places come to swindle him :

(514) Jul tsrahum gles iMltu 'alik, "Travel [and] you will see them, sit [and] they will come to you." 1

respect." Moreover, if a man does not get on well at home he had better go to another place to earn his living, even though he will have his grave there:

(516) Klam ljasi qbar rnl,nsi wa la skdra Mwya, "Said the man from Fez, A forgotten grave is better than an empty bag"; or,

(517) Qbar grw wii la skdra !Jdwya, " A strange grave is better than an empty bag " (Andjra).