Fire, even if put on head, burns only.

Eschew wicked company and associate with saintly persons. Acquire virtue day and night, and always meditate on that which is eternal forgetting that which is temporary.

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

Skills are called hidden treasure as they save like a mother in a foreign country.

My dear child, if you desire to be free from the cycle of birth and death, then abandon the objects of sense gratification as poison. Drink instead the nectar of forbearance, upright conduct, mercy, cleanliness and truth.

He who shall practice these twenty virtues shall become invincible in all his undertakings.

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