Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others destroy themselves like serpents that stray onto anthills.

We should not feel pride in our charity, austerity, valour, scriptural knowledge, modestyandmorality for the world is full of the rarest gems.

Defect in one's limb ruins a man.

He shall despise none, but hear the opinions of all. A wise man shall make use of even a child's sensible utterance.

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

Do not pass between two brahmanas, between a brahmana and his sacrificial fire, between a wife and her husband, a master and his servant, and a plough and an ox.

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