The brilliant chariots of kings are destroyed, the body also approaches
destruction, but the virtue of good people never approaches
destruction--thus do the good say to the good.
A man who has learnt little, grows old like an ox; his flesh grows, but
his knowledge does not grow.
Looking for the maker of this tabernacle, I have run through a course of
many births, not finding him; and painful is birth again and again. But
now, maker of the tabernacle, thou hast been seen; thou shalt not make
up this tabernacle again. All thy rafters are broken, thy ridge-pole is
sundered; the mind, approaching the Eternal (Visankhara, Nirvana), has
attained to the extinction of all desires.
Men who have not observed proper discipline, and have not gained wealth
in their youth, perish like old herons in a lake without fish.
Men who have not observed proper discipline, and have not gained wealth
in their youth, lie, like broken bows, sighing after the past.
CHAPTER XII
SELF
If a man hold himself dear, let him watch himself carefully; during one
at least out of the three watches a wise man should be watchful.
Let each man direct himself first to what is proper, then let him teach
others; thus a wise man will not suffer.
If a man make himself as he teaches others to be, then, being himself
well subdued, he may subdue others; for one's own self is difficult to
subdue.
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