Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

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

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.

As a calf follows its mother among a thousand cows, so the (good or bad) deeds of a man follow him.

What good can the scriptures do to a man who has no sense of his own? Of what use is as mirror to a blind man?

Enemies strike at weak points.

He who loses his money is forsaken by his friends, his wife, his servants and his relations; yet when he regains his riches those who have forsaken him come back to him. Hence wealth is certainly the best of relations.