0801

Call that an old friendship
Where liberties are not resented.

PS

0802

True friendship permits liberties and to concede to it
Is the duty of the wise. *

KK

0803

What is that intimacy which does not approve
And reciprocate liberties?

PS

0804

The wise take in good spirit if friends, by right of familiarity,
Do things without asking. *

SS, DL

0805

When friends hurt, attribute it to either ignorance
Or privileges of friendship. *

SS

0806

Those bound by intimacy never desert their old pals
Even if they bring loss. *

SS

0807

In a friendship built on love, friends do not cease to love
Even when there is betrayal. *

GU, NV

0808

Close friends who won't listen to friend's faults,
Hail in silence the day they offend. *

SS, PS

0809

The world will cherish those friends
Who never forsake old, unbroken friendships.

SS

0810

Even adversaries admire the character of old friends
Who don't part.

NV, JN

0821

Posing friends treat you like an anvil
To strike you at the opportune time. *

 DZ, KV

0822

Fickle as a woman's heart is the friendship of those
Who act like friends.

 PS, NV

0823

Hard for the ignoble to be good-hearted,
No matter how well educated they are. *

 MS

0824

Beware of those deceits who, with a smiling face,
Conceal bitterness in their hearts.

 NV

0825

Trust not the mere words of those
Whose minds don't agree with us. *

 PS

0826

A foe's words though seem friendly and good 
Can be read at once. *

 PS

0827

Trust not the bowing speech of your foe.
A bending bow is a sign of imminent danger.

 PS, NV

0828

Like a dagger concealed in folded hands
Is the mourning tears of foes. *

 PS, NV

0829

Cajole and crush with friendly guise
Those who flatter you but despise within. *

 SB, PS

0830

While playing a friend to foes, keep a friendly face
But banish them from thy heart.

  JN, SS

0841

The lack of lacks is the lack of knowledge.
Other lacks are not deemed such by the world.

PS

0842

Should a fool gift a thing heartily, it is nothing but
Due to the penance of the recipient. *

SM

0843

The harm fools do to themselves 
Is beyond anything their foes do to them.

PS

0844

What is stupidity? It is that vanity
Which dares to declare, "I am wise."

SS

0845

Pretence to learning not learnt, 
Calls in question the learning learnt.

PS

0846

Can a fool be said to be clothed 
When his faults lie exposed?

PS

0847

A fool who can't hold on to rare secrets
Does great harm to himself.

NV, PS

0848

Heeds no advice; knows nothing wise;
His life is an illness till he dies.

KS

0849

He is a fool, who tries to open the eyes of a fool,
For a fool sees things only his own way. *

VS

0850

He who denies what the world affirms 
Will be thought a demon on earth. *

 PS

0851

Hatred, they say, is the disease
That spreads the plague of discord among all life. *

SS

0852

Even if disagreeable things are done to cause rift,
Better do nothing painful to avoid conflict. *

DL, NV

0853

If that dire disease called hostility is discarded,
What yields is undying everlasting fame. *

MS

0854

When the misery of miseries called malice ceases,
There comes the joy of joys. *

PS

0855

Who can ever overcome the one, 
Who refuses to give in to feelings of hatred?

KV

0856

Want and ruin will soon befall the life of one
Who delights in excess hostility. *

KS, NV

0857

Those learned rapt up in destructive hate
Will never see the triumphant nature of truth. *

PS, DL

0858

To resist hatred is a gain.
Yielding to it, one is overcome by ruin. *

PS, KV

0859

Destined to prosper one will not look at hatred.
Destined for ruin, one will see it all the time.

PS

0860

From hatred comes all evil.
And from friendship the pride of goodness.

PS, NV

Even shade and water unwholesome can harm

Likewise one’s kinsmen if they hurt. * (PS)

0891

The best way to guard oneself is to not spite
The powers of the prowess. *

SS, PS

0892

Irreverence to the great will lead
To endless trouble through them.

PS

0893

If destruction you desire, provoke those
Who in turn can destroy as they desire. *

SS

0894

For the weak to challenge the mighty 
Is to summon yama with the hand.

PS, SS

0895

Where can he go and how can he thrive,
Who falls foul of a powerful king?

SB, PS

0896

One may survive even if burnt in fire
But no survival for those who offend the great. *

SS, PS

0897

What avails glorious life and great wealth
If one incurs the wrath of the virtuous great? *

SS

0898

If you underestimate the eminent,
You will be shaken off the earth of all your ties. *

MS, JN

0899

Even the mightiest of kings can perish midway
If men of high repute burst in rage. *

DL, KV

0900

Even men with all their might and aid
Cannot be saved if great sages frown. *

NV, VS