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

He who is prepared for the future and he who deals cleverly with any situation that may arise are both happy; but the fatalistic man who wholly depends on luck is ruined.

Do not pass between two brahmanas, between a brahmana and his sacrificial fire, between a wife and her husband, a master and his servant, and a plough and an ox.

She is a true wife who is clean (suci), expert, chaste, pleasing to the husband, and truthful.

The foolish wish to speak out what was spoken in secret by the master.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

One who is in search of knowledge should give up the search of pleasure and the one who is in search of pleasure should give up the search of knowledge.