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| Look at those who are poorer than yourself and rejoice in the greatness of your possessions. Look at those who are learned more than yourself and destroy self conceit exclaiming what is all our learning to those. |
| Learning and wealth are esteemed as true wealth only when the possessor are as humble as the poor who standing before them ask for them. |
| Those who are rich in wisdom will bear with patience the improper conduct of the unwise. Does it not appear on examining tht the lighter weight in a scale-pane rises higher and higher while the heavier falls lower? |
| Even the acts of the virtuous who avoid what is forbidden and perform only what is enjoined would tern evil, should they boast of having triumphed over the hostile senses and stood steadfastly in the path of virtue. |
| Those who sell to others the advantages of the mysteries which they have learned, reserve an advantage of another description to themselves, the receiving of the labours of the king of Dead, with hardihood that defies the terror of an evil life. |
| The shameless foul utterence in a learned assembly by those debarred by fate from all learning, merely serves to dissipate fear caused by their fomidable figure - the fear that birds have when they loook at a Scare-crow. |
| Imperishable learning is atttainable only by the intelligent; not by those who exult in vain-glorious laughter . Though a women possess charms which even �Rathi� might envy they cannot be enjoyed by an hermaphrodite. |
| If learnt men force instructions into the ears of the ignorant and there by incur disrespect the fault is their own. Why blame others when with all their wide learning they know not the nature of those ignorant? |
| The Noble dance not attendance at the royal court and yet are honoured; there are others who wait there for ever and are not honoured; the useless cat frequents the inner courts where queens reside, while the valiant elephant that can tear up the pillar to which they are tied, remains outside the gate. |
| To a prince who exterts tributes from his subjects like cutting a cow�s udder to get milk would be comparatively virtuous; but to those that protect their subjects before drawing their own resources, wealth will come in an overflowing flood. |
| While others assert every thing, the wisdom of the Judge is to receive their assertions, rejecting what is false. What will not man say, who standing opposite a crow, will call it white? There are some who will even say, that killing of a mother is noble? |
| Though ruin be before their eyes, will fools perceive it? No
they will not. Though thick flames envelope their body, the sleeping rock
serpents will not arouse from their loud-breathing slumbers.
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| The nobly generous whose glance is a bud; Their smiling countenance, a fresh blown blossom; The truth of their courteous speech, the sweet young fruit and munificence the ripe fruit; are not these the real inexhaustible Calpa-tree? |
| The restless elephant suffers no loss by a small quantity of
rice falling off from the mouthful that it receives; but a crore of crawling ants find that with all their families a plentiful. |
| Those will not spare their worthless bodies, in the hope of any feature profit, should anything happen even to such as are under their protection; who, sensible how frail is the body of flesh, have determined to preserve the body of glory. |
| The learned need no other ornament than the excellence of learning. Nothing is wanting to adorn an ornament set perfected with precious stones. Who would beautify beauty itself. |
| If any wanted to save their sweet lives by sacrificing courage and honour; let them do so, provided even then they can be secure from death for ever so short a time. |