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

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.

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

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.

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.

A low-minded person should not be given good advice.

Our bodies are perishable, wealth is not at all permanent and death is always nearby. Therefore we must immediately engage in acts of merit.

Do not put your trust in rivers, men who carry weapons, beasts with claws or horns, women, and members of a royal family.

Considersing the forebearance of a person, Do not harass him.