12. Impartiality

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.

The wealth of the man of rectitude will not perish, but will bring happiness also to his posterity.

Forsake in the very moment (of acquisition) that gain which, though it should bring advantage, is without equity.

The worthy and unworthy may be known by the existence or otherwise of good offsprings.

Loss and gain come not without cause; it is the ornament of the wise to preserve evenness of mind (under both).

Let him whose mind departing from equity commits sin well consider thus within himself, "I shall perish."

The great will not regard as poverty the low estate of that man who dwells in the virtue of equity.

To incline to neither side, but to rest impartial as the even-fixed scale is the ornament of the wise.

Freedom from obliquity of speech is rectitude, if there be (corresponding) freedom from bias of mind.

The true merchandize of merchants is to guard and do by the things of others as they do by their own.