A thing may be dreaded as long as it has not overtaken you.

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.

The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

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

Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.

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?

Even a captured enemy is not to be trusted.