In youth a man is deluded by other ideas than those which delude him in middle life, and again in his decay he embraces other ideas.
Mahābhārata.
442.
To consider, Is this man of our own or an alien? is a mark of little-minded persons; but the whole earth is of kin to the generous-hearted.*
Panchatantra.
* Cf. Luke, X, 29, ff.
443.
Skill in advising others is easily attained by men; but to practise righteousness themselves is what only a few can succeed in doing.
Hitopadesa.