87.
Books are endless, time is short: let a man, therefore, extract the substance, just as a swan extracts the milk which is mixed with water.
88.
Nectar becomes poison if kept too long.
89.
To obtain merit is like roiling a stone up a hill; to fall into evil, like rolling it down a mountain-side.
90.
The repetition of idle words becomes an ox: it is like chewing the cud.
91.
A Brahman can make what is not divine divine, and what is divine not divine.
92.
A hungry snake devours its own eggs: a woman pinched by hunger may desert her own child.
93.
The winkings of men's eyes are numbered all by him:[1] he wields the universe as gamesters handle dice.
94.
Time, like a brilliant steed with seven rays,
And with a thousand eyes, imperishable,
Full of fecundity, bears all things onward.[2]
