God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.

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.

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

Wealth, a friend, a wife, and a kingdom may be regained; but this body when lost may never be acquired again.

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.

Prosperity lasts long for one who acts after proper consideration.

People's Fury is above all the furies.