Women have hunger two-fold, shyness four-fold, daring six-fold, and lust eight-fold as compared to men.

People's Fury is above all the furies.

An egoist can be won over by being respected, a crazy person can be won over by allowing him to behave in an insane manner and a wise person can be won over by truth.

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

Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.

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

Even as the unborn babe is in the womb of his mother, these five are fixed as his life destiny: his life span, his activities, his acquisition of wealth and knowledge, and his time of death.