Panchatantra Punches Part 12

56. Where the family, fame and wealth is the same, marriage or friendship is secure, but not between the rich and the poor.

57. Ambition and greed for reward blinds one to danger. Men avoid the easy good and place too much confidence in rogues.

58. Like a fruit-laden tree whose branches bend low, the peacock whose proud feather makes his walk sluggish and slow, speedy horse which is tied and fed, so also the god discover that their own good is their enemy.

59. A man is great because of his virtues is no longer true, for the world takes little or no note of a brave deed.

60. By gifts, by self denial, by sacrifices, some slowly go to heaven, but to the one who dies in a heroic battle, the entry is immediate.