The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.

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

Trees on a riverbank, a woman in another man's house, and kings without counselors go without doubt to swift destruction.

A permanent relationship is dependent on particular purpose or wealth.

Do not put your trust in rivers, men who carry weapons, beasts with claws or horns, women, and members of a royal family.

He who is prepared for the future and he who deals cleverly with any situation that may arise are both happy; but the fatalistic man who wholly depends on luck is ruined.

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.