Every relationship has one or the other motive behind it. Friendship or enemity are not purposeless.Oneness of motive is turned into friendship. While diversity of motive cause enemity. Royal relationships also depend uypon one or theother purpose. But such relatins ar mainly for the welfare of the state.

Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.

Time perfects men as well as destroys them.

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

The man who remains a fool even in advanced age is really a fool, just as the Indra-Varuna fruit does not become sweet no matter how ripe it might become.

Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher of poison with milk on top.

He who gives up shyness in monetary dealings, in acquiring knowledge, in eating and in business, becomes happy.