_Hitopadesa._ 144. The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties. _Schopenhauer._ 145. Good actions lead to success, as good medicines to a cure: a healthy man is joyful, and a diligent man attains learning; a just man gains the reward of his virtue. _Hitopadesa._ 146. Purpose without power is mere weakness and deception; and power without purpose is mere fatuity. _Sa’dī._ 147. Suffering is the necessary consequence of sin, just as when you eat a sour fruit a stomach complaint ensues. _Burmese._ 148. Riches disclose in a man’s character the bad qualities formerly concealed in his poverty. _Arabic._ 149. Whate’er the work a man performs, The most effective aid to its completion— The most prolific source of true success— Is energy, without despondency. _Ramāyāna._ 150. Humility is a virtue all preach, none practise, and yet everybody is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine for his servant, the laity for the clergy, and the clergy for the laity. _Selden._ 151. Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates; The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud, and vain; By this the fool commands the wise, The noble with the base complies, The sot assumes the rule of wit, And cowards make the base submit. _Butler._ 152. No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own measurement. Man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men; it is life that touches his genuine worth. _Goethe._ 153. Increase in goodness as long as thou art here, that, when thou departest, in that thou mayest still be joyful. According to our words and deeds in this life will be the remembrance of us in the world. _Firdausī._ 154. Parents’ affection is best shown by their teaching their children industry and self-denial. _Burmese._ 155. There are three things to beware of through life: when a man is young, let him beware of his appetites; when he is middle-aged, of his passions; and when old, of covetousness, especially. _Confucius._ 156.