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

Wealth, a friend, a wife, and a kingdom may be regained; but this body when lost may never be acquired again.

One who is to be pardoned should not be harassed.

Do not put your trust in rivers, men who carry weapons, beasts with claws or horns, women, and members of a royal family.

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.

No one should ever be disrespected.

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.