During civil disturbance adopt such an attitude that people do not attach any importance to you - they neither burden you with complicated affairs, nor try to derive any advantage out of you.

Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals & character is superior to the man who tries to teach & train others.

Surely silence can sometimes be the most eloquent reply.

Often your utterances and expressions of your face leak out the secrets of your hidden thoughts.

In this world, man is a target of death, an easy prey to calamities, here every morsel and every draught is liable to choke one, here one never receives a favour until he loses another instead, here every additional day in one's life is a day reduced from the total span of his existence, when death is the natural outcome of life, how can we expect immortality.

A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks.

Perfecting one's intellect causes one to speak less, and those words spoken will be adorned with wisdom.