fire. [27] Pleasures destroy the foolish; the foolish man by his thirst for pleasures destroys himself as if he were his own enemy. The fields are damaged by hurricanes and weeds; mankind is damaged by passion, by hatred, by vanity, and by lust. [28] Let no man ever take into consideration whether a thing is pleasant or unpleasant. The love of pleasure begets grief and the dread of pain causes fear; he who is free from the love of pleasure and the dread of pain knows neither grief nor fear. [29] He who gives himself to vanity, and does not give himself to meditation, forgetting the real aim of life and grasping at pleasure, will in time envy him who has exerted himself in meditation. [30] The fault of others is easily noticed, but that of oneself is difficult to perceive. A man winnows his neighbor's faults like chaff, but his own fault he hides, as a cheat hides the false die from the gambler. [31] If a man looks after the faults of others, and is always inclined to take offence, his own passions will grow, and he is far from the destruction of passions. [32] Not about the perversities of others, not about their sins of commision or omission, but about his own misdeeds and negligences alone should a sage be worried. [33] Good people shine from afar, like the snowy mountains; bad people are concealed, like arrows shot by night. [34] If a man by causing pain