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1852-1876

  • That one says to him, “Both the worlds are thine, all our souls are thy soul's parasites.”
  • When he sees the people intoxicated with (desire for) him, because of arrogance he loses self-control.
  • He does not know that the Devil has cast thousands like him into the water of the river (of destruction).
  • The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel: eat less of it (eat it not), for it is a morsel full of fire. 1855
  • Its fire is hidden and its taste is manifest: its smoke becomes visible in the end.
  • Do not say, “How should I swallow that praise? He is speaking from desire (for reward): I am on his track (and see quite well what he is after).”
  • If your belauder should satirise you in public, your heart would burn for (many) days on account of those scorches (of vituperation).
  • Although you know that he (only) said it in disappointment because the hopes he had of you brought him no gain,
  • (Yet) the effect thereof is remaining within you. The same experience happens to you in the case of praise. 1860
  • The effect of that too lasts for many days and becomes a source of arrogance and deception of the soul,
  • But it does not show itself, because praise is sweet; (in the case of blame) the evil shows itself, because blame is bitter.
  • It (blame) is like (bitter) decoctions and pills which you swallow and for a long time you are in disturbance and pain,
  • Whereas, if you eat halwá (sweetmeat), its taste is momentary: this effect, like the other, is not enduring for ever.
  • Since it does not endure (perceptibly), it endures imperceptibly: recognise every opposite by means of its opposite. 1865
  • When the effect of sugar endures (remains latent), after a while it produces boils that call for the lancet.
  • The fleshly soul was made a Pharaoh by (receiving) many praises: be lowly of spirit through meekness, do not domineer.
  • So far as you can, become a slave, do not be a monarch. Suffer blows: become like the ball, do not be the bat.
  • Otherwise, when this elegance and beauty remains with you no more, you will be loathed by those companions.
  • The set of people who used to flatter you deceitfully, when they behold you will call you a devil. 1870
  • When they see you at their doors, they all will cry, “Truly a dead man has risen from the grave.”
  • (You will be) like the beardless youth whom they address as “Lord” that by this hypocrisy they may make entrap him.
  • As soon as he has grown a beard in infamy, the Devil is ashamed to search after him.
  • The Devil approaches Man for the sake of wickedness: he does not approach you because you are worse than the Devil.
  • So long as you were a man the Devil was running at your heels and bidding you taste (his) wine. 1875
  • Since you have become confirmed in devilry, the good-for-nothing Devil is fleeing from you!