A man who has learnt little, grows old like an ox; his flesh grows, but his knowledge does not grow.
Looking for the maker of this tabernacle, I have run through a course of many births, not finding him; and painful is birth again and again. But now, maker of the tabernacle, thou hast been seen; thou shalt not make up this tabernacle again. All thy rafters are broken, thy ridge-pole is sundered; the mind, approaching the Eternal (Visankhâra, Nirvâna), has attained to the extinction of all desires.
Men who have not observed proper discipline, and have not gained wealth in their youth, perish like old herons in a lake without fish.
Men who have not observed proper discipline, and have not gained wealth in their youth, lie, like broken bows, sighing after the past.
[CHAPTER XII]
SELF
If a man hold himself dear, let him watch himself carefully; during one at least out of the three watches a wise man should be watchful.
Let each man direct himself first to what is proper, then let him teach others; thus a wise man will not suffer.
If a man make himself as he teaches others to be, then, being himself well subdued, he may subdue others; for one's own self is difficult to subdue.