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.

They (low-minded) ones should never be trusted.

Do not put your trust in a bad companion nor even trust an ordinary friend, for if he should get angry with you, he may bring all your secrets to light.

Whores don’t live in company of poor men, citizens never support a weak company and birds don’t build nests on a tree that doesn’t bear fruits.

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.

The foolish wish to speak out what was spoken in secret by the master.

Swans live wherever there is water, and leave the place where water dries up; let not a man act so - and comes and goes as he pleases.