He who runs away from a fearful calamity, a foreign invasion, a terrible famine, and the companionship of wicked men is safe.

Wicked ones are like fire. Even if pu on hea, they burn only. They do not leave unhurt even their well - wishers and benefactors.

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

My dear child, if you desire to be free from the cycle of birth and death, then abandon the objects of sense gratification as poison. Drink instead the nectar of forbearance, upright conduct, mercy, cleanliness and truth.

Swans live wherever there is water, and leave the place where water dries up; let not a man act so - and comes and goes as he pleases.

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

Knower of the means makes impossible tasks also possible.