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Sanatan Dharma

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Book 8 Chapter III Paragraph 2

Wikisource / R. Shamasastry (1915) · Book 8 - Concerning Vices and Calamities / Chapter III · Verse Paragraph 2

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Vice's due to anger form a triad; and those due to desire are fourfold. Of these two, anger is worse, for anger proceeds against all. In a majority of cases, kings given to anger are said to have fallen a prey to popular fury. But kings addicted to pleasures have perished in consequence of serious diseases brought about by deterioration and improverishment.