Muni's PlaySource: Sacred-Texts (Translation), Sacred-Texts (Transliteration)
Book 13: Anushasana Parva (Chapter 12)
Verse 11
Sanskrit
ekaḥ prasūto rājendra jantur eko vinaśyati ekas tarati durgāṇi gacchaty ekaś ca durgatim
Translation
Brihaspati said: “One is born alone, O king, and one dies alone; one crosses alone the difficulties one meets with, and one alone encounters whatever misery falls to one’s lot. One has really no companion in these acts.”
Verse 17
Sanskrit
dharmaś cārthaś ca kāmaś ca tritayaṃ jīvite phalam etat trayam avāptavyam adharmaparivarjitam
Translation
“Piety, wealth and pleasure—these three constitute the fruit of life. One should acquire these three by means of being free from impropriety and sin.”
Chapter 14
Verse 8
Sanskrit
na tatparasya saṃdadyāt pratikūlaṃ yad ātmanaḥ eṣa saṃkṣepato dharmaḥ kāmād anyaḥ pravartate
Translation
“One should never do that to another which one regards as injurious to one’s own self. This, in brief, is the rule of Righteousness. One by acting in a different way by yielding to desire, becomes guilty of unrighteousness.”
Verse 9
Sanskrit
pratyākhyāne ca dāने ca sukhaduḥkhe priyāpriye ātmaupamyena puruṣaḥ samādhim adhigacchati
Translation
“In refusals and gifts, in happiness and misery, in the agreeable, and the disagreeable, one should judge of their effects by a reference to one’s own self.”