THE KURAL
796. There is a virtue even in misfortune : for it is the rod wherewith to measure thy friends.
797. To discard the friendship of fools, that is veritable profit for a man.
798. Think not the thoughts that depress the heart: nor make the friendship of men who will abandon thee the moment thou art down.
799. The friendship of men that betray in the day of disaster would burn the heart that thinketh on it even at the moment of death.
800. Cultivate with ardour the friendship of the pure; as to men that are unworthy of thee, discard thou their association even if it be by giving them a present.
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