But if you do not find an intelligent companion, a wise and well-behaved person going the same way as yourself, then go on your way alone, like a king abandoning a conquered kingdom, or like a great elephant in the deep forest. It is better to travel alone. There is no companionship with a fool. Go on your way alone and commit no evil, without cares like a great elephant in the deep forest. It is good to have companions when occasion arises, and it is good to be contented with whatever comes.
Merit is good at the close of life, and the elimination of all suffering is good.
331 Good is filial devotion to one's mother in the world, and devotion to one's father is good. It is good to be a sanyasi in the world and to be a brahmin too. 332 Good is good behaviour up to old age, good is firmly established faith, good is the acquisition of understanding, and abstention from evil is good.