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PART II WEALTH
CHAPTER 51
TESTING OF MEN FOR CONFIDENCE
501. Love of the right, gold, pleasure, and fear of life, these four are the tests of a man: give thy confidence therefore to men that satisfy all these tests.[1]
502. Behold the man who is born of a good family, who is free from faults and who dreadeth disgrace : he is the man for thee.
503. Even men of rare learning and of pure hearts will not be found, when thou dost test them, to be absolutely exempt from all ignorance.
504. Weigh a man's good and weigh his evil : whichever is more, take that to be his nature.
505. Dost thou want to find out whether a man is noble or little-minded ? Know that conduct is the touchstone of character.
- ↑ See Kauṭilya's Arthashâstra, Part I Ch. 10 for those tests or upadhâs.
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