Couplet 111
If justice, failing not, its quality maintain,
Giving to each his due, -'tis man's one highest gain
Explanation
That equity which consists in acting with equal regard to each of (the three) divisions of men [enemies, strangers and friends] is a pre-eminent virtue
Couplet 112
The just man's wealth unwasting shall endure,
And to his race a lasting joy ensure
Explanation
The wealth of the man of rectitude will not perish, but will bring happiness also to his posterity
Couplet 113
Though only good it seem to give, yet gain
By wrong acquired, not e'en one day retain
Explanation
Forsake in the very moment (of acquisition) that gain which, though it should bring advantage, is without equity
Couplet 114
Who just or unjust lived shall soon appear:
By each one's offspring shall the truth be clear
Explanation
The worthy and unworthy may be known by the existence or otherwise of good offsprings
Couplet 115
The gain and loss in life are not mere accident;
Just mind inflexible is sages' ornament
Explanation
Loss and gain come not without cause; it is the ornament of the wise to preserve evenness of mind (under both)
Couplet 116
If, right deserting, heart to evil turn,
Let man impending ruin's sign discern
Explanation
Let him whose mind departing from equity commits sin well consider thus within himself, "I shall perish."
Couplet 117
The man who justly lives, tenacious of the right,
In low estate is never low to wise man's sight
Explanation
The great will not regard as poverty the low estate of that man who dwells in the virtue of equity
Couplet 118
To stand, like balance-rod that level hangs and rightly weighs,
With calm unbiassed equity of soul, is sages' praise
Explanation
To incline to neither side, but to rest impartial as the even-fixed scale is the ornament of the wise
Couplet 119
Inflexibility in word is righteousness,
If men inflexibility of soul possess
Explanation
Freedom from obliquity of speech is rectitude, if there be (corresponding) freedom from bias of mind
Couplet 120
As thriving trader is the trader known,
Who guards another's interests as his own
Explanation
The true merchandise of merchants is to guard and do by the things of others as they do by their own
