Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.

A thing may be dreaded as long as it has not overtaken you.

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.

If people of one''s own side have good conduct, it adds power to oneself. The misconduct on the contrary render one powerless. The enemy taks advantage of it. A skilled statesman never allows enemy to win over.

There are three gems upon this earth; food, water, and pleasing words -- fools (mudhas) consider pieces of rocks as gems.

The learned are envied by the foolish; rich men by the poor; chaste women by adulteresses; and beautiful ladies by ugly ones.

Let not a single day pass without your learning a verse, half a verse, or a fourth of it, or even one letter of it; nor without attending to charity, study and other pious activity.

For good days one should save money, women should be protected even if it takes the money saved. But for self preservation the money and the women should be sacrificed!

Union in privacy (with one's wife); boldness; storing away useful items; watchfulness; and not easily trusting others; these five things are to be learned from a crow.

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.

He shall despise none, but hear the opinions of all. A wise man shall make use of even a child's sensible utterance.

A permanent relationship is dependent on particular purpose or wealth.

Punishment when awarded with due consideration, makes the people devoted to righteousness and to works productive of wealth and enjoyment.

A single son endowed with good qualities is far better than a hundred devoid of them.

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

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.

A man attains greatness by his merits, not simply by occupying an exalted seat. Can we call a crow an eagle (garuda) simply because he sits on the top of a tall building.

It is the mind of man alone that is the cause of his bondage or freedom.

The beauty of a cuckoo is in its notes, that of a woman in her unalloyed devotion to her husband, that of an ugly person in his scholarship, and that of an ascetic in his forgiveness.