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

The fire of the forest burns trees to ashes. Even expensive sandalwood tree which is endowed with qualities of cooling and fragrance, cannot escape from burning. In the same way wicked cause harm to their benefactors also.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

Women have hunger two-fold, shyness four-fold, daring six-fold, and lust eight-fold as compared to men.

In trans-border relations, there are no permanent friends or permanent enemies or even permanent borders. There are only permanent interests and everything should be done to secure these interests.

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