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

It is better to be without a king than to have a bad one.

What good can the scriptures do to a man who has no sense of his own? Of what use is as mirror to a blind man?

No amount of advice change his attitude. He does not listed to good advice. Rather he gets angry.

Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.

Don't judge the future of a person based on his present conditions, becausetime has the power to change black coal to shiny diamond.

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?