SRI AUROBINDO
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Kalidasa
Bhartrihari. The Century of Life
On Virtue
Thus is the good friend pictured by the pens
Of good men: – still with gentle hand he turns
From sin and shame his friend, to noble gains
Still spurs him on; deep in his heart inurns
His secret errors, blares his parts abroad,
Gives at his need, nor takes the traitor’s road
Leaving with facile wings when fortune spurns.