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

We should always speak what would please the man of whom we expect a favour,like the hunter who sings sweetly when he desires to shoot a deer.

Education beats the beauty and the youth.

He who gives up shyness in monetary dealings, in acquiring knowledge, in eating and in business, becomes happy.

Everybody has same or the other weakness. This eis also a a general tendency to conceal theee weaknesses. For people may not harm for these, but they will surely ridicule or make fun of. Friendship, of course feigned should be retained with enemy till his weakness is known. Let him remain elated.

Prosperity lasts long for one who acts after proper consideration.

There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.