After receiving fees, the Brahmin leaves the patron; after receiving education, the student leaves the Guru; burned forests are left by the deer.

By becoming friends with a person of evil action, or a person of evil vision, or a person of evil residence, or a person of evil reputation, one is swiftly ruined.

Among equals, befitting is love; a king’s service is befitting; seriousness is befitting in behaviour; an extremely beautiful woman is befitting in a home.

Whose family is without faults? Whom has illness not pained? Who has not received some kind of addiction? Who is happy forever?

Behaviour shows the family, speech shows the country, mutual respect shows the love, the body shows the food.

For a daughter, marriage in a good family should be arranged; for a son, a sound education should be arranged; for an enemy, addictions should be arranged; for a friend, righteous works should be arranged.

Between an evil person and a snake, a snake is better and not an evil person; for a snake strikes only when it is fated, but an evil person strikes at every step.

The reason why kings gather around themselves persons of noble lineage, is because such persons do not leave the king in the beginning, middle, or the end.

At the time of destruction, the oceans transgress their limits and seek to come apart, but even at that time, a saint neither transgresses his limits nor does he come apart.