A low-minded person should not be given good advice.

The king shall lose no time when the opportunity waited for arrives.

All types of riches should be amassed by all means.

One's weakness should not ever be revealed.

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.

Water is the medicine for indigestion; it is invigorating when the food that is eaten is well digested; it is like nectar when drunk in the middle of a dinner; and it is like poison when taken at the end of a meal.

Fire, even if put on head, burns only.