Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher of poison with milk on top.

A wise man should marry a virgin of a respectable family even if she is deformed. He should not marry one of a low-class family, through beauty. Marriage in a family of equal status is preferable.

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.

One who is in search of knowledge should give up the search of pleasure and the one who is in search of pleasure should give up the search of knowledge.

She is a true wife who is clean (suci), expert, chaste, pleasing to the husband, and truthful.

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

The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.