37.
Science is a couch for the wise; reclining on it they feel no fatigue.
38.
A man of feeble character is like a reed shaken by the wind.
39.
Wealth without liberality is like riches still buried in the earth.
40.
Here, in this world, love's only fruit is won
When two true hearts are blended into one;
But when by disagreement love is blighted,
'Twere better that two corpses were united.[1]
41.
The washerman beats the cloth to remove the stains: a teacher chastises to make his pupil good.
42.
A crocodile in water can destroy an elephant; out of the stream it is overcome by a dog.
43.
Bust makes iron soft; the soul is softened by grief.
44.
The friendship of the bad is like the shadow of a precipitous bank, ready to crush him who sits beneath.
45.
Where frogs are the croakers, their silence is becoming.
- ↑ Monier Williams' translation of a passage of Bhartṛihari.
