Hitopdesh • Chapter 2 • Shloka 92
लघुपतनको ब्रूते -- श्रुतं मया सर्वं । तथापि मम चैतावान्संकल्पस्त्वया
सह सौहृद्यमवश्यं करणीयमिति ।
नो चेदनाहारेणात्मानं व्यापादयिष्यामि । तथा हि ।
मृद्घटवत्सुखभेद्यो दुःसंधानश्च दुर्जनो भवति ।
सुजनस्तु कनकघटवद्दुर्भेद्यश्चाशु संधेयः ॥
Laghupatanaka said - I have heard everything. Yet I am thus far resolved that I must necessarily form friendship with you, or else I will destroy myself by starvation. For, (Friendship with) a bad man, like a vessel of earth, is easily broken and cemented with difficulty; while (that with) a good man is like a pot of gold, difficult to be broken and easily re-united.
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