I used to think the young were clean and pure. Then it became clear that among the young there are also many…

I used to think the young were clean and pure. Then it became clear that among the young there are also many who are cunning and two-faced. It turns out there are those who treat you well but are rude to their own parents. These are traitors. It turns out there are many who see you only as a tool to get their business done. These are base. It turns out there are also plenty who present themselves as poor wretches to you and spread bad words behind your back. They are contemptible. A person lays the foundation — the cornerstone — of his life in his youth. If you spend your youth in baseness, hypocrisy, impatience, betrayal, foolishness, worship of the world, two-facedness, lust and arrogance, then the harvest of these abominations awaits you in the future. Whether you want to or not, you will eat it. If you adorn your youth with fortitude, honesty, purity, loyalty, hard work, steadfastness, love, aspiration, truthfulness, patience and worship, then honor and dignity await you in the future. What a young man does is the mirror of his lineage and ancestry. He lives revealing every vice and virtue in his nature. It is impossible to be otherwise. Of course, the door of repentance and divine help is open, and those who have goodness in their nature and lineage will succeed in entering it.