No amount of advice change his attitude. He does not listed to good advice. Rather he gets angry.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

Union in privacy (with one's wife); boldness; storing away useful items; watchfulness; and not easily trusting others; these five things are to be learned from a crow.

Learning is a friend on the journey; a wife in the house; medicine in sickness; and religious merit is the only friend after death.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

He who befriends a man whose conduct is vicious, whose vision impure, and who is notoriously crooked, is rapidly ruined.

Constant travel brings old age upon a man; a horse becomes old by being constantly tied up; lack of sexual contact with her husband brings old age upon a woman; and garments become old through being left in the sun.