Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.

The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

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

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.

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.