The wise say that it is not an iron, wooden or fiber fetter which is a strong one, but the besotted hankering after trinkets, children and wives, that, say the wise, is the strong fetter. It drags one down, and loose as it feels, it is hard to break. Breaking this fetter, people renounce the world, free from longing and abandoning sensuality.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

There are friendships to one who lives in society; thus our present grief arises from having friendships; observing the evils resulting from friendship, let one walk alone like a rhinoceros.

He who wrongs the innocent must bear the fruit of his act, like dust flung against the wind.

No one outside ourselves can rule us inwardly. When we know this, we become free.

They who imagine truth in untruth and see untruth in truth will never arrive at the truth.

In the same way that rain breaks into a house with a bad roof, desire breaks into the mind that has not been practising meditation.