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lecting that all things are illusory, the wise man covets them not; 857
"He who desires such things, desires sorrow, and then goes on again ensnared in love, with no certainty of ultimate freedom; he advances still and ever adds grief to grief, 858
Like one holding a lighted torch burns his hand, and therefore the wise man enters on no such things. The foolish man and the one who doubts, still encouraging the covetous and burning heart, 859
In the end receives accumulated sorrow, not to be remedied by any prospect of rest; covetousness and anger are as the serpent's poison; the wise man casts away 860
The approach of sorrow as a rotten bone; he tastes it not nor touches it, lest it should corrupt his teeth, that which the wise man will not take, 861
The king will go through fire and water to obtain, the wicked sons? labour for wealth as for a piece of putrid flesh, o'er which the hungry flocks of birds contend. 862
'So should we regard riches; the wise man is ill pleased at having wealth stored up, the mind wild with anxious thoughts, 863
'Guarding himself by night and day, as a man who fears some powerful enemy, like as a man's feelings revolt with disgust at the (sights seen) beneath the slaughter post of the East Market, 864
'So the high post which marks the presence of lust, and anger, and ignorance, the wise man always avoids; as those who enter the mountains or the seas have much to contend with and little rest, 865 *As the fruit which grows on a high tree, and is
? The foolish world.
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