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

Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one's own sins.

If one limb of the body is defected or inflicted with, disease, the whole feels tha pai. Some way if any department, minister or official of the state is faulty, the whole country is effected. An administrator should try hard to curb it.

If people of one''s own side have good conduct, it adds power to oneself. The misconduct on the contrary render one powerless. The enemy taks advantage of it. A skilled statesman never allows enemy to win over.

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.

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

He who nurtures benevolence for all creatures within his heart overcomes all difficulties and will be the recipient of all types of riches at every step.