Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
That man who is without religion and mercy should be rejected. A guru without spiritual knowledge should be rejected. The wife with an offensive face should be given up, and so should relatives who are without affection.
Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.
The house of a childless person is a void, all directions are void to one who has no relatives, the heart of a fool is also void, but to a poverty stricken man all is void.
If a king is energetic, his subjects will be equally energetic.
Once you start working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.
Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.
As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.
One who is in search of knowledge should give up the search of pleasure and the one who is in search of pleasure should give up the search of knowledge.
Education beats the beauty and the youth.
Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others destroy themselves like serpents that stray onto anthills.
He who has wealth has friends.
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.
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.