Provision too there is none for you. Make an island unto yourself. Purged of strain and passionless, you will not come again to birth and old age. As rust sprung from iron eats itself away when arisen, even so his own deeds lead the transgressor to states of woe. Misconduct is the taint of a woman.
Stinginess is the taint of a donor.
Taints, indeed, are all evil things both in this world and in the next. A worse taint than these is ignorance, the greatest taint. Easy is the life of a man who is shameless, bold like a crow, a fault finder, insolent, impudent and corrupt. Hard is the life of a modest one who ever seeks purity, is detached, humble, clean in life and reflective. Whoso destroys life, utter lies, takes what is not given, resorts to others' wife, and is addicted to intoxicating liquor, he, in this very life, would dig up his own root.