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75. Faith is wealth, virtue is wealth, Shame and fear of wrongdoing are wealth; Learning is wealth, and generosity, Wisdom is the supreme wealth. 76. For women, beauty is wealth, For men, lineage is wealth; For snakes, poison is wealth, For kings, power is wealth; For monks, virtue is wealth, For brahmins, knowledge is wealth. 77. Neither beauty, nor intelligence, Nor lineage, nor birth; When misfortune arrives, Wealth alone is outstanding. 78. Those without wealth are abandoned by friends, Children, wives, and siblings; The wealthy are served, Wealth is the greatest friend in the world. 79. The good serve the bad, Even water serves the fire; They enjoy wealth and possessions, The empty ones abandon them. 80. Wealth is made by oneself, Misfortune is made by oneself; Indeed, neither wealth nor misfortune, Is made by another. 81. A wealthy man, a learned man, a king, A river, and a doctor; These five are not found everywhere, One should not live where they are not. 82. Where there is no good country, No affection, no kinship, No acquisition of knowledge, One should not live there, not even for a day. 83. Where there is disrespect, Constant humiliation, Or inferior treatment, One should not live there, not even for a day. 84. Lions, noble men, and elephants, Leave a place that is decaying; There they meet their end, Like crows, ignoble men, and deer. 85. Where the lazy and the diligent, The brave and the timid are equally honored; The good do not live there, Where there is no distinction. 86. With one foot he moves, with one the wise man stands; not having considered another place, he does not abandon his former abode. 87. Having lost their place, teeth, hair, and nails disgust; the wise man, understanding this, does not quickly abandon his place. 88. Even a quality equal to omniscience, one without support declines; a priceless jewel, a gem, gold shines with support. 89. One should not serve a harsh master, nor should one serve a miser; better a niggardly master than that, certainly not one who is dismissive. 90. One who destroys good qualities behind one's back, and speaks pleasantly to one's face; one should not associate with such a person, like a pot of poison, though tempting. 91. One should serve with one's back, one should not serve with a fiery belly; one should serve a master with one's whole body, and the next world without delusion. 92. One should not serve one who is constantly evil, nor serve one who speaks falsely; one should not serve one who is self-serving, nor serve one who is overly attached. 93. Having taken a great support, even a small one becomes great; relying on Mount Meru, they say birds become golden-winged. 94. Even if one is powerful, without help, what will one's energy accomplish? A fire placed in a sheltered spot, goes out by itself. 95. Relying on good soil, trees increase in flowers and fruits; relying on good people, great merit increases. 96. One who is not lazy, not fierce, not deceitful, pure, and truthful; not greedy, and desiring good, that man is called the best of men. 97. Preventing harm, and employing in good; and not abandoning in distress, in brief, this is the mark of a friend. 98. In sickness and distress, in famine and foreign war; at the king's gate and in the cemetery, in brief, this is the mark of a friend. 99. One who desires good is a true friend, and the wise are difficult to find; like medicine that is both pleasant, and cures disease is the good person. 100. One who abandons the permanent, and cultivates the impermanent; the permanent things are lost to him, and what to say of the impermanent. 101. One should win over the greedy with wealth, the obstinate with gentle deeds; the deluded with compliance, the wise with truth. 102. By frequent association with truth, by impartial generosity; by this, friends are won, and by not asking out of season. 103. Therefore, one should not go too often, nor should one go too rarely; at the right time. One should not beg from another, Thus friends do not decline. 104. Through association with whom as a friend, Well-being is destroyed; One should avoid such a person from the beginning, As a wise man protects fire. 105. Through association with whom as a friend, Well-being increases; One should treat him as oneself, In all matters, as a wise man. 106. Sugar cane is cut joint by joint, The taste of the juice becomes more special; So is a good friend, Unlike an evil person. 107. Thus it was said by the sage, Some worldly teachings, And transcendental ones, Teachings leading to Nibbāna. 108. Having approached a good friend, All these things happen to beings; Therefore, to good friends, One should always show respect. 109. He who is grateful and knows what has been done, And has firm devotion to a good friend; Diligently does what needs to be done for the afflicted, That being, they call a good person in the world. 110. A benefactor is one kind of friend, A friend is one kind of benefactor; Harmful is like a disease to the body, Beneficial is like medicine from the forest. 111. Whose face is like a lotus, Whose speech is cool like sandalwood; Honey stays on the tip of the tongue, But poison is in the heart; One should not associate with such a person, One should avoid that friend. 112. Having done an unwholesome deed, Having done a wholesome deed before; Being happy and then unhappy, That fool does not see. 113. The fool wastes time, Losing generosity, morality, and the like; He thinks the impermanent is permanent, And himself is equal to the eternal. 114. Having done an evil deed, the fool, Does not dare to conceal it; How can one dare to step, Where a tiger or the like is going? 115. Even penniless, he desires, Even weak, he makes an effort; Even dull-witted, he wants to argue, These are the three characteristics of a fool. 116. Going uninvited, Speaking much without being asked; Praising one's own qualities, These are the three characteristics of a base person. 117. Like a pot broken on the outside, And also red on the outside; Full of filth inside, Such is the nature of an evil person. 118. That which is empty makes a sound, That which is full is silent; A fool is like a half-filled pot, A wise man is like a full pot. 119. Even when advised by the wise, A rogue has many deceits; Like an ember being rubbed, It only goes down to ashes. 120. By advising a foolish disciple, And maintaining a bad wife; By associating with wicked enemies, Even a wise man declines. 121. Charming for another's wife, Wealth for worldly display; Devoted to the destruction of the good, These are the qualities of the wicked. 122. Nothing is more laughable in the world, Than this; The wicked praise wickedness, And the good, wickedness. 123. The wicked truly delight, In nothing but disparaging others; Having tasted all flavors, He is not satisfied without impurity. 124. An exceedingly close relationship, Becomes weak and degraded; Is not the heart of the wicked, To be measured by iron? 125. Therefore, association with the wicked, Like a venomous snake; A wise man, desiring well-being, Should avoid from afar. 126. Association with the wicked, Does not lead to enmity; An ember burns nearby, And turns the saintly one black. 127. The wicked should be avoided, Even if adorned with knowledge; A gem-adorned pit, Is still a source of fear. 128. Fire burns the forest, The wind becomes its friend; That same wind extinguishes the lamp, Such is friendship with the wicked. 129. Everyone is bad, the wicked is bad, The wicked is worse than all; He can be calmed by mantras and medicines, But the wicked cannot be appeased. 130. Even if the wicked is well-behaved, By the strength of his heart; Can a neem tree, Be sweet with honey in its hollow? 131. By association with the unrighteous, Even the righteous become unrighteous; A path strewn with gravel, Even if straight, becomes unsuitable. 132. A blade of fragrant grass, Wraps a rotten fish; The grass also smells rotten, So is association with a fool. 133. Do not see, hear, Or live with a fool; Do not converse, Or associate with a fool. 134. A fool leads to ruin, And engages in improper tasks; He becomes worse in wrongdoing, And gets angry even when correctly addressed; He does not understand discipline, And is not seen by the good. 135. Even if a fool associates, With a wise man all his life; He does not understand the Dhamma, Like a ladle the taste of soup. 136. A fruit destroys the banana tree, A fruit destroys bamboo and reeds; Honor destroys a man, Like a womb destroys a mule. 137. A dog, seeing a dog, Shows its teeth. He shows malice. Seeing a wicked person, A wicked person desires to anger and harm. 138. A frog is angry with a lion, A pig is angry with a leopard; A cat is angry with a tiger, A fool is angry with a wise person. 139. A frog is like a lion, A crow pecks at sesame seeds; A fool is like a wise person, A fool asks "yes, yes." 140. The crow is the worst of birds, The mouse is the worst in the house; The monkey is the worst in the forest, The brahmin is the worst of men. 141. Grass, land, water, And the fourth, well-spoken words; These four things in a good home, Are never cut off. 142. Rivers do not drink their own water, Trees do not eat their own fruit; Clouds never eat their own grain, The wealth of good people is for others. 143. Virtues perform the duty of a messenger, Even from afar, hundreds of leagues; Smelling the fragrance of the screwpine, Bees go to it. 144. Though crowded in an assembly, The foolish one is as if detached; Though born near many, He goes like a madman. 145. Having avoided evil friends, One should associate with the best person; One should remain in his instruction, Desiring unwavering happiness. 146. Just as a ripe jackfruit, Is sticky on the outside; But filled with nectar inside, Such is the nature of good people. 147.