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Kalidasa

Bhartrihari. The Century of Life

On Firmness

Ornaments

What is an ornament? Courtesy in high place,

Speech temperate in the hero, innocence

In high philosophers, and wrathlessness

In hermits, and in riches noble expense.

Sincerity and honest meaning plain

Save outward holiness, mercy the strong

Adorns and modesty most learned men;

One grace to every station can belong.

Cause of all other gems, of all is blent

Virtue, the universal ornament.