क्रुद्ध्यन्तं न प्रतिक्रुध्येद् आक्रुष्टः कुशलं वदेत् । सप्तद्वारावकीर्णां च न वाचम् अनृतां वदेत् ॥
kruddhyantaṃ na pratikrudhyed ākruṣṭaḥ kuśalaṃ vadet | saptadvārāvakīrṇāṃ ca na vācam anṛtāṃ vadet ||
Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.
Against an angry man let him not in return show anger, let him bless when he is cursed, and let him not utter speech, devoid of truth, scattered at the seven gates.
Translated by Georg BühlerFrom an unproofread scan of the printed edition; spelling and line breaks may carry OCR errors.