Do not put your trust in a bad companion nor even trust an ordinary friend, for if he should get angry with you, he may bring all your secrets to light. |
Do not put your trust in rivers, men who carry weapons, beasts with claws or horns, women, and members of a royal family. |
Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution. |
Do not say, ""What what fear has a rich man of calamity?"" When riches begin to forsake one even the accumulated stock dwindles away. |
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth. |
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth. |
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. |
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. |
Even as the unborn babe is in the womb of his mother, these five are fixed as his life destiny: his life span, his activities, his acquisition of wealth and knowledge, and his time of death. |
Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous. |
Even one who by his qualities appears to be all knowing suffers without patronage; the gem, though precious, requires a gold setting. |
Excessive attachment to sense pleasures leads to bondage, and detachment from sense pleasures leads to liberation; therefore it is the mind alone that is responsible for bondage or liberation. |
Fate makes a beggar a king and a king a beggar. He makes a rich man poor and a poor man rich. |
Fish, tortoises, and birds bring up their young by means of sight, attention and touch; so do saintly men afford protection to their associates by the same means. |
Fondle a son until he is five years of age, and use the stick for another ten years, but when he has attained his sixteenth year treat him as a friend. |