46.
Good people are like the cocoanut; the bad, like the jujube, charming only in the exterior.
47.
Unpleasant speech is often salutary: drops of bitter medicine produce a beneficial effect.
48.
Friendship with the good is permanent: even when broken, the fibres of the lotus-stalks are connected.
49.
As the spokes of a wheel are attached to the nave, so are all things attached to life.
50.
The good man, like a bounding ball,
Springs ever upward from his fall;
The wicked falls like lumps of clay,
And crumbles into dust away.
51.
Let a man act so by day that he may live happily by night.
52.
He by whom swans are made white, and parrots green, and peacocks variegated in hue, he will provide thy sustenance.
53.
When men are ripe for slaughter, even straws turn into thunderbolts.
54.
The tempest does not uproot tender grasses: great men expend their valour on the great.
