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कसाय-जओ
Oh! the vain gloriousness of human beings, though the goddess of wealth with her eyes blooming smiles not on them, the goddess of learning confers no boon on them and they themselves have not performed any great action!
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Though there is neither patience, nor solemnity, nor endurance, nor benevolence, nor any other eminent quality or art. yet man entertains arrogance ! [ Really speaking, arrogance is censurable in every state--even in the state endowed with all of these and also all other excellences. It follows from real wisdom that the more grandeur increases, the more
humility is maintained). ... .
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A man even though equal in beauty to the god Cupid, becomes after a lapse of some time, emaciated with diseases; and it is quite evident that even a king may become a beggar. Thon, does what benefit accrue from the cherishing of pride?
