The disgrace of one's people brings sorrow to the Nobel minded.

Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one's own sins.

He who gives up shyness in monetary dealings, in acquiring knowledge, in eating and in business, becomes happy.

Eschew wicked company and associate with saintly persons. Acquire virtue day and night, and always meditate on that which is eternal forgetting that which is temporary.

A ruler wishing to win shold not trust a cpterued enemy even if he may be extending had to be friend. Because deep rooted enemity, however, concealed, will ruerely come to light.

A wicked wife, a false friend, a saucy servant and living in a house with a serpent in it are nothing but death.

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.