Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c4.t5.45

c4.t5.45

“He smiles not when you see him, no welcome will he show,
He will not turn his eyes that way, and answers you with ‘No.’
Your enemies he honours, he cares not for your friends,
Those who would praise your worth, he stays, your slandersers commends,
No secret tells he to you, your secret he betrays,
Speaks never well of what you do, your wisdom will not praise.
He joys not at your welfare, but at your evil fame,
Should he receive some dainty, he thinks not of your name,
Nor pities you, nor cries aloud—“O, had my friend the same”
These are the sixteen tokens by which a foe you see,
These, if a wise man sees or hears, he knows his enemy.”