There is no disease so destructive as lust.
Do not keep company with a fool for as we can see he is a two-legged beast. Like an unseen thorn he pierces the heart with his sharp words.
The foolish wish to speak out what was spoken in secret by the master.
Enemies strike at weak points.
The forest fire burns even trees like sandalwood.
Prosperity lasts long for one who acts after proper consideration.
It is better to live under a tree in a jungle inhabited by tigers and elephants, to maintain oneself in such a place with ripe fruits and spring water, to lie down on grass and to wear the ragged barks of trees than to live amongst one’s relations when reduced to poverty.
Do not pass between two brahmanas, between a brahmana and his sacrificial fire, between a wife and her husband, a master and his servant, and a plough and an ox.
As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is imminent, what can you do?
Although an ass is tired, he continues to carry his burden; he is unmindful of cold and heat; and he is always contented; these three things should be learned from the ass.
The beauty of a cuckoo is in its notes, that of a woman in her unalloyed devotion to her husband, that of an ugly person in his scholarship, and that of an ascetic in his forgiveness.
A still-born son os superior to a foolish son endowed with a long life. The first causes grief for but a moment while the latter like a blazing fire consumes his parents in grief for life.
Even a pandit comes to grief by giving instruction to a foolish disciple, by maintaining a wicked wife, and by excessive familiarity with the miserable.
One destitute of wealth is not destitute, he is indeed rich, but the man devoid of learning is destitute in every way.
This world is a bitter tree, it has only two sweet nectar like fruits – one is soft voice and the other is company of gentlemen.
The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.
As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.
The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.
Sinfully acquired wealth may remain for ten years; in the eleventh year it disappears with even the original stock.
He who forsakes his own community and joins another perishes as the king who embraces an unrighteous path.