The fire of the forest burns trees to ashes. Even expensive sandalwood tree which is endowed with qualities of cooling and fragrance, cannot escape from burning. In the same way wicked cause harm to their benefactors also.

He who has wealth has friends.

He who loses his money is forsaken by his friends, his wife, his servants and his relations; yet when he regains his riches those who have forsaken him come back to him. Hence wealth is certainly the best of relations.

A thing may be dreaded as long as it has not overtaken you.

A person becomes great not be sitting on some high seat, but through higher qualities. Can a crow become an eagle by simply sitting on the top of a palatial building?

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?

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.