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(yield, lose the ir sting, become blupted) when faced with virtues. practised (with patient endurance).
556) People who know the truth (i. e. who have regard for the essential truth and are not carried away by superficial appearances) are not won over without real, genuine (sincere) feeling. Who can possibly deceive an old cat with gruel (offered to it in place of milk) ?
557) He without whom one cannot do (carry on) (even for a moment)-he is conciliated (or he has to be conciliated).even. though he may have given offence. Even when a city is burnt down (consumed) by fire, to whom, say, is fire not dear (welcome) (for domestic use)?
558) Oh (procuress), by your favour I know how to speak hundreds of coaxing words. But I do not know one thing, namely, the moistening (liquefaction) of the vaginal, passage in regard to a person devoid of affection.
559) Clever (shrewd) men are kind (soft), only so long as their bodies (minds) are full of love (affection). But when they have once achieved their purpose, they become devoid of affection and turn wicked like mustard seeds, which, when separated. from oil, turn into dry (oil-less) cakes.
59. The Section on the Harlot 560) She is crooked in her behaviour (thoughts and actions), just as a female snake is crooked in her movenients. She is devoid of (true) affection, just as the lamp in a pauper's house is devoid of oil. She is greedy for money (38), just as a good poet is eager for securing sense (379) (for his utterances). On seeing such a harlot, I pay my homage to her.
561) A harlot, who is rich and gaudy in her colour (because of the use of powders and paints and of bright clothes and glittering ornaments), who is full of affection (show of affection), at the beginning, who, though devoid of real love, clings to the neck (of her patron) but at last changes in her attitude (and
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