Women eat two-times more food, are four-times more shy, have six-times more courage, and have eight-times more lust; so it is remembered.

Unrighteous courage, deceitful tactics, foolishness, greed, filthiness, and cruelty, are natural faults of women.

To have food and the strength to consume it; to have a woman and the strength to ravish her; to have prosperity and the strength to give charity; these are not results of small austerities.

One whose son is obedient, whose wife behaves according to his wishes, and who is content with his prosperity and fame, his heaven is here only.

He is a son who is a devotee of his father, he is a father who provides sustenance, he is a friend in whom one can confide, she is a wife from whom contentment is obtained.

Ruining your work behind your back, but talking sweetly in front of you, such a person is a duplicity-practising friend, who is like a pot containing poison, but has a layer of milk on top.

Do not trust a duplicity-practising friend, and also trust not a friend; for if the friend becomes angry, then all secrets he will reveal.

A work whose details are mentally worked out, should not be revealed in words; with a strategy it should be protected, so that secretly the work can be arranged.

Painful is indeed foolishness, painful is indeed youth, but painfully painful is residing in another person’s house.