587.

Treat no one with disdain; with patience bear

Reviling language; with an angry man

Be never angry; blessings give for curses.*

Manu.

* Cf. Matt. V, II, 44.

E’en as a traveller, meeting with the shade

Of some o’erhanging tree, awhile reposes,

Then leaves its shelter to pursue his way,

So men meet friends, then part with them for ever.

Hitopadesa.