The king shall lose no time when the opportunity waited for arrives.

A person becomes great not be sitting on some high seat, but through higher qualities. Can a crow become an eagle by simply sitting on the top of a palatial building?

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

Svanaja includes in itself the whole subject, officials and ministers. If there is something wrong in the conduct of these people, it would be damaging the state. An administrator should strictly deal with it.

Good behavior wins even an enemy.

All the creatures are pleased by loving words; and therefore we should address words that are pleasing to all, for there is no lack of sweet words.

A debt should be paid off till the last penny; An enemy should be destroyed without a trace