Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

One's weakness should not ever be revealed.

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

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

My dear child, if you desire to be free from the cycle of birth and death, then abandon the objects of sense gratification as poison. Drink instead the nectar of forbearance, upright conduct, mercy, cleanliness and truth.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

Education beats the beauty and the youth.