Time perfects all living beings as well as kills them; it alone is awake when all others are asleep. Time is insurmountable.

Fate being unfavorable( or without god's grace, even an easy task becomes difficult to accomplish)

They (low-minded) ones should never be trusted.

Trees on a riverbank, a woman in another man's house, and kings without counselors go without doubt to swift destruction.

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.

The fire of the forest burns trees to ashes. Even expensive sandalwood tree which is endowed with qualities of cooling and fragrance, cannot escape from burning. In the same way wicked cause harm to their benefactors also.

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.