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CWSA.- Volume 5

Part One. Translations from Sanskrit
Section Four. Bhartrihari. The Century of Life

On Fools and Folly

Folly’s Wisdom

One cloak on ignorance absolutely fits;

Justly if worn, some grace is even lent;

Silence in sessions of the learned sits

On the fool’s brow like a bright ornament.