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.

Greed is permanent slavery

Always consider your intellect to be lacking; otherwise too much faith in it surely leads to error.

There is no capital more useful than intellect and wisdom, and there is no indigence more injurious than ignorance and unawareness.

Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love.

How many lessons there are and how little they are taken

Greed takes a person to the watering place but gets him back without letting him drink. It undertakes responsibility but does not fulfill it. Often the drinker gets choked before quenching his thirst. The greater the worth of a thing yearned for, the greater is the grief for its loss. Desires blind the eyes of understanding. The destined share would reach him who does not approach it.