One who is to be pardoned should not be harassed.

A thing may be dreaded as long as it has not overtaken you.

The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.

He who forsakes his own community and joins another perishes as the king who embraces an unrighteous path.

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.

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.

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.