It is better to be without a king than to have a bad one.

The king shall singly deliberate over secret matters; for ministers have their own ministers, and these latter some of their own; this kind of successive line of ministers tends to the disclosure of counsels.

Do not pass between two brahmanas, between a brahmana and his sacrificial fire, between a wife and her husband, a master and his servant, and a plough and an ox.

For the moon though one, dispels the darkness, which the stars, though numerous, do not.

Learning is a friend on the journey; a wife in the house; medicine in sickness; and religious merit is the only friend after death.

A ruler wishing to win shold not trust a cpterued enemy even if he may be extending had to be friend. Because deep rooted enemity, however, concealed, will ruerely come to light.

He who shall practice these twenty virtues shall become invincible in all his undertakings.