The lustre of a virtuous character cannot be defaced, nor can the vices of a vicious man ever become lucid. A jewel preserves its lustre, though trodden in the mud, but a brass pot, though placed upon the head, is brass still.

Wording recorded in the collection; original language not established.

The lustre of a virtuous character cannot be defaced, nor can the vices of a vicious man ever become lucid. A jewel preserves its lustre, though trodden in the mud, but a brass pot, though placed upon the head, is brass still.

Tradizione indiana · Panchatantra · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 433

Wording recorded in the collection; original language not established.

The wife of bad conduct--constantly pleased with quarrelling--she is known by wise men to be cruel Old Age in the form of a wife.

Tradizione indiana · Panchatantra · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 232

Wording recorded in the collection; original language not established.

A man should not keep company with one whose character, family, and abode are unknown.

Tradizione indiana · Panchatantra · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 571