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

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.

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.

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

He who is prepared for the future and he who deals cleverly with any situation that may arise are both happy; but the fatalistic man who wholly depends on luck is ruined.

The man who remains a fool even in advanced age is really a fool, just as the Indra-Varuna fruit does not become sweet no matter how ripe it might become.

Save your wealth against future calamity. Do not say, "what fear has a rich man of calamity?" Wealth sometimes vanishes away and large accumulations perish.