proverb · Legacy record
Dine with a stranger but put aside your love for your family.
Dine with a stranger but put aside your love for your family.
Historical period not yet established
Understand the thought
Meaning in plain English
Dining with a stranger while setting aside love for family gives hospitality and closer attachment different places. The phrase put aside leaves their exact relation uncertain.
What the words are saying
The traditional meaning is unverified; reserving a distinct affection for family is only one qualified reading, not a silently rewritten sentence. A responsible application does not rank strangers as less worthy or require loyalty to a harmful family relationship. Hospitality and boundaries can coexist.
Everyday example
A reader asks what put aside means in context before using the line to prescribe family loyalty.
When to use it
Use it only as a qualified relationship-and-hospitality comparison.
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What it does not mean
No definitive traditional meaning or compulsory family allegiance is established.
Agent-assisted editorial interpretation. This explains the words; it does not by itself verify their author or earliest origin.
Attribution & collection notes
- Author or tradition
- Traditional
Attribution: traditional - Country attributed
- Not established
A country attribution does not establish the earliest origin. - Historical period
- Historical period not yet established
No sufficiently supported historical placement has been established. Import and download dates are not treated as composition dates. - Recorded source
- Contributor-provided wisdom reference (2014 AD)
Supplied reference B; unit 564; PDF page 53; collection label: Assyria/Ethiopia
A collection's publication date can be later than the words it records.
- Culture
- Assyria/Ethiopia