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

A wicked wife, a false friend, a saucy servant and living in a house with a serpent in it are nothing but death.

At the time of the pralaya (universal destruction) the oceans are to exceed their limits and seek to change, but a saintly man never changes.

Swans live wherever there is water, and leave the place where water dries up; let not a man act so - and comes and goes as he pleases.

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

The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

He who is prepared for the future and he who deals cleverly with any situation that may arise are both happy; but the fatalistic man who wholly depends on luck is ruined.