One of the students had perfect beauty, and the teacher, due to human nature, had a special affection for his beautiful appearance, and when he found him alone, he would say:

I am not so preoccupied with you, O heavenly-faced one,

That the thought of myself comes to my mind.

I cannot close my eyes from seeing you,

Even if I see that an arrow is coming towards me.

Anyway, the boy said: Just as you observe my learning, also consider my conduct, so that if you see any unpleasantness in my morals that seems pleasing to me, inform me of it so that I can try to change it.

He said: O son! Ask this of someone else, for with the view that I have towards you, I see nothing but virtue.

May the eye of the malevolent be plucked out,

It shows flaws, his virtue in sight.

And if you have one virtue and seventy flaws,

A friend sees nothing but that one virtue.