One who speaks reprovingly, intelligent - such a wise person one should associate with;

For one associating with such a person, it is better, not worse.

For he is dear to the good, but disagreeable to the bad.

One should associate with good friends, one should associate with the highest of men.

In the Teaching proclaimed by the Noble One, the wise person always delights.

Carpenters straighten wood, the wise tame themselves.

So the wise do not waver amidst blame and praise.

So having heard the teachings, the wise become serene.

Whether touched by happiness or by suffering, the wise do not show high and low states.

One should not wish for one's own success not by rule; such a one would be moral, wise, and righteous.

And this other generation just runs along the shore.

Those people will go beyond, the realm of Death so hard to cross.

Having come from home to homelessness, in seclusion where delight is hard.

The wise one should purify oneself of the mental defilements of the mind.

Who delight in the relinquishment of grasping, by non-clinging;

Those who have eliminated the mental corruptions, brilliant, they are quenched in the world."