Sinfully acquired wealth may remain for ten years; in the eleventh year it disappears with even the original stock.

My dear child, if you desire to be free from the cycle of birth and death, then abandon the objects of sense gratification as poison. Drink instead the nectar of forbearance, upright conduct, mercy, cleanliness and truth.

Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear.

Brass is polished by ashes; copper is cleaned by tamarind; a woman, by her menses; and a river by its flow.

The forest fire burns even tree like sandalwood.

A thing may be dreaded as long as it has not overtaken you.

When one is consumed by the sorrows of life, three things give him relief: offspring, a wife, and the company of the Lord's devotees.

The low minded are fond of deception the nature of low-minded people never changes.

We should always speak what would please the man of whom we expect a favour,like the hunter who sings sweetly when he desires to shoot a deer.

He who runs away from a fearful calamity, a foreign invasion, a terrible famine, and the companionship of wicked men is safe.

Enemies strike at weak points.

A wise man should marry a virgin of a respectable family even if she is deformed. He should not marry one of a low-class family, through beauty. Marriage in a family of equal status is preferable.

One's weakness should not ever be revealed.

Women have hunger two-fold, shyness four-fold, daring six-fold, and lust eight-fold as compared to men.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

A debt should be paid off till the last penny; An enemy should be destroyed without a trace

What good can the scriptures do to a man who has no sense of his own? Of what use is as mirror to a blind man?

There are three gems upon this earth; food, water, and pleasing words - fools (mudhas) consider pieces of rocks as gems.

The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.