CXCIX. The same.

Panchatantra i. 15.

A wealthy man ev'n strangers treat
As if they were his kinsmen born:
The poor man's kindred all with scorn
His claim to kinship basely meet.

CC. Heirs of the rich often spendthrifts.

Subahshitarnava, 64.

How many foolish heirs make haste
The wealth their fathers saved to waste!
Who does not guard with care the pelf
He long has toiled to hoard himself?

CCI. Self-exaltation, and censure of others condemned. Mahābhārata xii. 10576.

Himself in men's esteem to raise

On other's faults let no one dwell;

But rather let a man excel

All other men in doing well,

And thus command the meed of praise.
Oft worthless men, in blind conceit,
Their own superior merits vaunt,
And better men with failings taunt :
Reproof themselves with scorn they meet.
By blameless acts alone the wise,
Although they ne'er themselves exalt,
Nor yet with other men find fault,
To high esteem and honour rise.
The odour sweet of virtuous deeds,
Though voiceless, far and wide will fly:

To tell his presence in the sky
The noonday sun no herald needs.
By self-applause a fool in vain
From others glory seeks to gain ;

But nought a wise man's light confines :
Though sunk within a pit it shines.

CCII. Bad men pleased to hear ill, not good, of others.
Mahabharata v. 1380; xii. 11014.

Of others' ill to hear makes bad men glad ;
To hear of others' virtues makes them sad.

CCIII. The bad like, the good dislike, to censure others.
Mahabharata i. 3079.

In censuring others wicked men delight:
With all good men 'tis just the opposite.

CCIV. Men of merit alone can appreciate merit.
Mahabharata viii. 1817.

No man can others' merits know

When he himself has none to show.

CCV. Censoriousness and self-deception.

Mahabharata viii. 2116; v. 1007.

All men are very quick to spy

Their neighbours' faults, but very slow
To note their own; when these they know,
With self-deluding art they eye.

CCVI. Men see other's faults, but are blind to their own.

Subhashitārṇava, 275.

Men soon the faults of others learn:

A few their virtues, too, find out;

But is there one-I have a doubt

Who can his own defects discern.

CCVII. "Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye?" &c.

(Matthew vii. 3 f.)

Mahabharata i. 3069.

Thou mark'st the faults of other men,
Although as mustard seeds minute;
Thine own escape thy partial ken,
Though each in size a Bilva fruit.

CCVIII. tant of self-knowledge.

Mahabharata i. 3074.

Until the ugly man has scanned
His form, as in a mirror shown,
He deems, in fond conceit, his own
The fairest face in all the land.
But when the faithful glass reveals
How every grace and charm it wants,
At once are silenced all his vaunts-
The galling truth he sadly feels.

CCIX. Conceit difficult to cure.

Panchatantra i. 314, or 357.

Declare what power the born conceit
Can drive from any creature's mind.

* The Bilva is the Bel, or Aegle Marmelos.

See yonder bird, its back reclined
On earth, throws up its little feet,
While there it sleeps, the sky to prop,
Which else to earth might downward drop.

CCX. To give advice easy; to act well difficult.
Hitopadesa i. 98, or 107.

Whoe'er will others seeking light, advise,
His task is easy-here all men are wise;
But urged themselves to virtue, most no more
The wisdom show they seemed to have before.

CCXI. To boast easy; to act difficult.
Rāmāyaṇa vi. 67, 10 (Gorresio's Edition.)

In words to carry out a plan,

Is easy work for any man;

But those who vigour join with skill
Alone hard tasks in act fulfil.

CCXII. Union is strength.

Mahabharata v. 1321 ff.; iii. 1333; i. 5915 f.

The forest tree that stands alone,

Though huge, and strong, and rooted fast,

Unable long to brave the blast,

By furious gusts is overthrown ;

While trees that, growing side by side,
A mass compact together form,
Each sheltering each, defy the storm,
And green from age to age abide.

So too the man alone who stands,

However brave himself, and wise, But lacking aid from stout allies, Falls, smitten soon by hostile hands.

But those sage kinsmen ever thrive,
Like lotus flowers in blooming pride,
Who firmly each in each confide,
And each from each support derive.

CCXIII. The same.

Mahabharata v. 1318.

Long threads, if all alike they be,
And many, even if thin, sustain,
Unbroken, many a heavy strain :
Of good men here an emblem see.

CCXIV. The same.

Mahabharata v. 1319.

Would kinsmen deal a deadly stroke, They all the common cause must aid, When sundered, firebrands only smoke, But blaze whene'er in contact laid.

CCXV. Mutual help.
Mahabharata v. 863.

By woods unsheltered, tigers fall
Beneath the hunter-troop's attacks:
And stripped of tigers, forests tall
Soon sink before the woodman's axe.
Let tigers, therefore, woods defend,
And woods to tigers shelter lend.

CCXVI. Weak foes not to be despised. Mahābhārata i. 5553 (compare i. 5627), xii. 4390. Let none a feeble foe despise : If but a little fire should seize One out of many forest trees, Soon low the wood in ashes lies.