Skills are called hidden treasure as they save like a mother in a foreign country.

A wise man should marry a virgin of a respectable family even if she is deformed. He should not marry one of a low-class family, through beauty. Marriage in a family of equal status is preferable.

As water collected in a tank gets pure by filtration, so accumulated wealth is preserved by being employed in charity.

At the time of the pralaya (universal destruction) the oceans are to exceed their limits and seek to change, but a saintly man never changes.

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

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.

One who is in search of knowledge should give up the search of pleasure and the one who is in search of pleasure should give up the search of knowledge.