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        A human being is distinguishable from beasts by his intellectual ability and that ability wins renown by fidelity to wife, society and nation.

        Masyapurana has some harsh things to say about this. Credibility is the touchstone of good and evil in sizing up human character and personality.

        Fidelity is the root of credibility from which flows truthfulness and loyalty. He or she who is unfaithful to spouse and family can transform himself into a traitor.

        Where loyalty is to pelf and its pile, conscience is bought easily and loyalty swings and changes like the weather cock. The Purana calls it satanic proclivity.

        The Purana says a courtier who is far too obsequious should be suspected as also those who are over considerate to their spouses.

        Those who speak too little and spend too much of their time in solitude or prefer to work in solitude may be bad servants or conspirators

        Those who betray their masters should not be trusted by those who had gained by that betrayal. The Purana calls them devils incarnate.

        Traitors should be summarily executed, while defectors should never be taken back. Indeed some of them are prone to be birds of passage always.