Moral excellence is an ornament for personal beauty; righteous conduct, for high birth; success for learning; and proper spending for wealth.

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

One's weakness should not ever be revealed.

The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.

Moral excellence is an ornament for personal beauty; righteous conduct, for high birth; success for learning; and proper spending for wealth.

Even a pandit comes to grief by giving instruction to a foolish disciple, by maintaining a wicked wife, and by excessive familiarity with the miserable.

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.