The Five Laws of Gold as Written by My Father

"I read most carefully thy words of wisdom and realized that had I but sought wisdom first, my gold would not have been lost to me," he said. He learned by heart each law and determined that when once more the goddess of good fortune smiled upon him, I would be guided by the wisdom of age and not by the inexperience of youth. For the benefit of you who are seated here this night, I will read the wisdom of my father as engraved on a clay tablet which he gave to me 10 years ago."