(34) He lived about 160-220 C.E.

(35) This world is a bridge that leads to the future world
(Maimonides).

23. R. Simeon, the son of Eleazer (36), said, "Do not appease thy
fellow in the hour of his anger, and comfort him not in the hour when
his dead lies before him, and question him not in the hour of his vow,
and rush not to see him in the hour of his disgrace."

(36) A pupil of R. Meir. He lived about 160-220 C.E.

24. Samuel (37), the younger, used to say, "Rejoice not when thine
enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth: lest
the Lord see it and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from
him" (38).

(37) Samuel (about 120 C.E.) is said to have composed, at the
request of R. Gamaliel II, the prayer against heretics, added
to the "Eighteen Benedictions" (_Shemoneh Esreh_). See the
_Jewish Encyclopedia_, vol. XI, p. 281.

(38) Prov. XXIV, 17, 18.

25. Elisha, the son of Abuyah (39), said, "If one learns as a child,
what is it like? Like ink written in clean paper. If one learns as
an old man, what is it like? Like ink written on used paper" (40).

(39) See n. 1, above. Elisha ben Abuyah, otherwise known as