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Rh She is a wife who, keeping watch over herself, tends her husband with loving kindness and jealously guards tho honour of her home. (56)

The touch of children makes us thrill with joy; their prattle sounds music in our ears. (65)

Ignorant are they who hold that love is an ally to virtue alone, for even against the evils of the world, it is our only shield and armour. (76)

What keeps alive the endless toil of the home of the wise ? It is the love of the guests and pilgrims that seek shelter under its roof. (81)

Where there is a gracious smile, a kindly look, and a sweet word gushing out from a heart sincere, there righteousness has its solemn throne. (93).

There is still hope left for men guilty of every other crime, but the ungrateful are past redemption.' (110)

The noble and the wicked are known by their progeny. (115)

Self control leads to sovereign power and makes the son of man one with the immortals, but an ill-governed passion hurls him down into the shades of endless gloom'. (121)

Right conduct is the seed of virtue; but an ovil one is the mother of endless woes. (138)

Hatred, sin, dread, and infamy ever dog tho stops of an adulterer. (146)

To forgive an insult out of strength is noble; nobler still is to forget it. (152)

Envy is in itself a dread enemy to undo the soul. (165)