Beneficence is righteousness,
Oppression’s sin’s malignant core.
Sanskrit.
192.
A wound inflicted by arrows heals, a wood cut down by an axe grows, but harsh words are hateful—a wound inflicted by them does not heal. Arrows of different sorts can be extracted from the body, but a word-dart cannot be drawn out, for it is seated in the heart.
Mahābhārata.
193.
To address a judicious remark to a thoughtless man is a mere threshing of chaff.
Hitopadesa.