Those who wish good of their friends should not please
them with words which are not true.
The friendship of the bad is like the shade of some
precipitous river bank with crumbling sides, which, falling, buries him who is
beneath.
There should not be any ambiguity in the use of words. There
should not be any repetition, and the desirability of the sense should never be
trampled upon.
The man who wishes to rise should first dispel the darkness
of anger by his intellect.
He who although powerful does not resist the encroachments
of the darkness of delusion arising from anger, destroys all the wealth and
power.
Fortunes, fleeting like the autumnal clouds, cannot be
retained by those whose senses are unsteady.
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Bharavi was a 6th century Sanskrit poet who wrote
Kiratarjuniya based on the Mahabharata.