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Appendix.
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95.
I'd sooner live in mountain caves
- With lions, bears, and apes,
Than dwell in Indra's heavenly halls
- With brainless human shapes.[1]
96.
To argue with a fool is as if to bring the dead to life.
97.
A moth is caught by glare, a fish by a bait; a man is ensnared by desire.
98.
Truth is weightier than sacrifice.
99.
Wealth is a great perverter.
100.
The society of the good is a medicine.
101.
Be generous: the tree does not refuse its shadow to the man who cuts it with his axe.
102.
Have not too many enemies: a fierce serpent may be killed by a swarm of insects.
103.
Poisonous trees, though watered with nectar, do not produce wholesome fruits.
- ↑ Tawney's Two Centuries of Bhartṛihari.
