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5. Simplicity, humility, compassion and serenity - these are the four virtues that enable the soul to acquire human birth.
-- Sthā. Sū. 4.4
6. Four types of people are not worthy of acquiring scrip
tural knowledge – the vain, the greedy, the quarrelsome and the deceitful.
-- Sthā. Sū. 4.3
7. Four types of clouds can be seen - those which thunder
but do not rain, those which are rain-bearing but do not thunder, those which thunder as well as rain and those which neither thunder nor rain.
— Sthā. Sū. 4.4
8. Like the clouds, philanthropists are also of four kinds -
some talk proudly of donating but do not donate, some donate liberally but do not utter a word about it, some donate as well as indulge in self-appraisal while some others neither speak nor donate.
— Sthā. Sū. 4.4
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