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(92) A monk who avoids all speech that is likely to hurt others and speaks only what is good to himself and to others observes the fourth virtue of truthfulness.
(93) A person suffers misery after telling a lie, before telling a lie and while telling a lie-thus suffers endless misery, similarly a person who steels or a person who is lustful also suffers misery and finds himself without a support.
(94) Every beneficial advice given by a group-fellow though unpalatable to the mind at first, proves wholesome in the end, like a medicine which is better in taste becomes agreeable in effect.
(95) A person who speaks the truth becomes trustworthy like a mother, venerable like a preceptor to his people and dear to all others as their relatives.
(96) Truthfulness is the abode of penance, of self-control and of all other virtues; indeed truthfulness is the place of origination of all other noble qualities as the ocean is that of fishes.
(97) Greed grows with every gain,every gain increases greed. A work which could be done by two grams of gold, could not be done even by crores of grams.
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