Accumulated wealth is saved by spending just as incoming fresh water is saved by letting out stagnant water.

What good can the scriptures do to a man who has no sense of his own? Of what use is as mirror to a blind man?

When one is consumed by the sorrows of life, three things give him relief: offspring, a wife, and the company of the Lord's devotees.

Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others destroy themselves like serpents that stray onto anthills.

She is a true wife who is clean (suci), expert, chaste, pleasing to the husband, and truthful.

As a calf follows its mother among a thousand cows, so the (good or bad) deeds of a man follow him.