Manu Smriti - Hindu Online

7.41. Through a want of humility Vena perished, likewise king Nahusha, Sudas, the son of Pigavana, Sumukha,
and Nemi.
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7.42. But by humility Prithu and Manu gained sovereignty, Kubera the position of the Lord of wealth, and the
son of Gadhi the rank of a Brahmana.
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7.43. From those versed in the three Vedas let him learn the threefold (sacred science), the primeval science of
government, the science of dialectics, and the knowledge of the (supreme) Soul; from the people (the theory of)
the (various) trades and professions.
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7.44. Day and night he must strenuously exert himself to conquer his senses; for he (alone) who has conquered
his own senses, can keep his subjects in obedience.
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7.45. Let him carefully shun the ten vices, springing from love of pleasure, and the eight, proceeding from
wrath, which (all) end in misery.
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7.46. For a king who is attached to the vices springing from love of pleasure, loses his wealth and his virtue, but
(he who is given) to those arising from anger, (loses) even his life.
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7.47. Hunting, gambling, sleeping by day, censoriousness, (excess with) women, drunkenness, (an inordinate
love for) dancing, singing, and music, and useless travel are the tenfold set (of vices) springing from love of
pleasure.
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7.48. Tale-bearing, violence, treachery, envy, slandering, (unjust) seizure of property, reviling, and assault are
the eightfold set (of vices) produced by wrath.
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7.49. That greediness which all wise men declare to be the root even of both these (sets), let him carefully
conquer; both sets (of vices) are produced by that.
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7.50. Drinking, dice, women, and hunting, these four (which have been enumerated) in succession, he must
know to be the most pernicious in the set that springs from love of pleasure.
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