Do not keep company with a fool for as we can see he is a two-legged beast. Like an unseen thorn he pierces the heart with his sharp words.

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

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

Everybody has same or the other weakness. This eis also a a general tendency to conceal theee weaknesses. For people may not harm for these, but they will surely ridicule or make fun of. Friendship, of course feigned should be retained with enemy till his weakness is known. Let him remain elated.

A father who is a chronic debtor, an adulterous mother, a beautiful wife, and an unlearned son are enemies in one's own home.

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

Time perfects all living beings as well as kills them; it alone is awake when all others are asleep. Time is insurmountable.