The low minded are fond of deception the nature of low-minded people never changes.

Constant travel brings old age upon a man; a horse becomes old by being constantly tied up; lack of sexual contact with her husband brings old age upon a woman; and garments become old through being left in the sun.

They (low-minded) ones should never be trusted.

The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.

Even a pandit comes to grief by giving instruction to a foolish disciple, by maintaining a wicked wife, and by excessive familiarity with the miserable.

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.

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.