Know the true nature of servants by putting them at work, of a relative when one is suffering a calamity, of a friend when one is facing an adversity, and of a wife when one’s wealth is lost.

In need, in addiction, in receiving, in famine, in danger from enemies, in the royal court, in the crematorium, one who does not forsake, is a relative.

One who discards certainty in favour of uncertainty; certainly destroys certainty; and uncertainty is destroyed as it is.

An intelligent man does not like an ugly woman, even if she belongs to a high-status family, and also does not like a woman from a low-status family, even if she is beautiful; thus, marriage among equal status is prescribed.

Rivers, armed men, clawed and horned beasts, should not be trusted, including women, and members of the royal family.