55.
The streams of rivers flow on and return not; so day and night take with them the life of mortals.
56.
As a man extracts gold from stones, let him also receive what is valuable from all quarters—from a raving mad-man or a chattering fool.
57.
For a man of energy Meru is not too high to be ascended, nor the ocean too extensive to be crossed.
58.
Show compassion to all: the moon withholds not its light from the house of a Châṇḍâla.
59.
There should be no companionship with a wicked man: charcoal, when hot, burns; when cold, it blackens the hand.
60.
Treachery is of crimes the blackest,
- Avarice is a world of vice;
Truth is nobler than penance,
- Purity than sacrifice.
61.
Companionship with the bad is easily severed; the good, like vessels of gold, are hard to break and easily united.
62.
Better a forest haunted by tigers and elephants, trees for shelter, ripe fruits and water for food, grass for a bed, bark for clothing, but not deprived of wealth living among relatives.
