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Ch 08 On Rules For Conduct In Life - Maxim 12

An ill-humoured man is captive in the hands of a foe, from the grasp of whose punishment he cannot be delivered wherever he may go. If from the hand of calamity an ill-natured man escapes into the sky The evil disposition of his own nature retains him in calamity. THE GULISTAN OF SA'DI Translated by Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890)