Eschew wicked company and associate with saintly persons. Acquire virtue day and night, and always meditate on that which is eternal forgetting that which is temporary.

The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.

Our bodies are perishable, wealth is not at all permanent and death is always nearby. Therefore we must immediately engage in acts of merit.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one's own sins.

He shall despise none, but hear the opinions of all. A wise man shall make use of even a child's sensible utterance.

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