28.
Will white ashes remove the smell of the wine-pot? Will a cord put on the neck make one twice-born?
29.
The eyeball is large; the pupil, through which we see, is small.
30.
Trees are bowed down with weight of fruit,
- Clouds big with rain hang low;
So good men humbly bear success,
- Nor overweening grow.
31.
A small deed honestly performed is a work of great merit: a small seed may grow into an extensive banyan tree.
32.
A scorpion's poison is in its tail, a fly's in its head; the poison of a snake is in its fangs; a bad man is poisonous altogether.
33.
The philosopher's stone in a fool's hand would vanish as fast as hailstones that come with the rain.
34.
What use of an eloquent man where there are no hearers? What use of a washerman in a country of naked beggars?
35.
Act in time: wait not to repair the tank after the water has escaped.
36.
As gems on a string, so on God is the whole universe woven.
