Do not put your trust in rivers, men who carry weapons, beasts with claws or horns, women, and members of a royal family.

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

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

The demerits of our own people bringh infamiy. Their disgrace is our own disgrace. That is why infamy os such people relly hurts . It is desifrable that the ruler or the administrator may work in a way that such disgraceful conduct may not occur.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

Even a pandit comes to grief by giving instruction to a foolish disciple, by maintaining a wicked wife, and by excessive familiarity with the miserable.