Task performed by an unintelligent person should not be rated high.

When one is consumed by the sorrows of life, three things give him relief: offspring, a wife, and the company of the Lord's devotees.

By means of hearing one understands dharma, malignity vanishes, knowledge is acquired, and liberation from material bondage is gained.

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

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

Beauty is spoiled by an immoral nature; noble birth by bad conduct; learning, without being perfected; and wealth by not being properly utilised.

Those parents who do not educate their sons are their enemies; for as is a crane among swans, so are ignorant so are ignorant sons in a public assembly.