678 Quotes About Aphorisms

When residents of hell are born in this earth they have these marks: they are extremely vicious, they speak harsh words and are poor in speech, they have enmity with their own people, they associate with the base, and they serve disrespectful persons.

One goes, if, into a cave of a lion, then he may get pearls obtained from the elephant’s head; but if he goes into a hole of a jackal, then all he may find is a tail of a calf or a piece of a donkey’s skin.

The life of a man without learning is useless like the tail of a dog, which neither can hide the secret organs nor can it brush away insects.

Purity of speech, purity of mind, control of senses, and mercy for all, are the purities of one who gives counsel that benefits others.

In flower the fragrance, in sesamum seed the oil, in wood the fire, in milk the clarified butter, in sugarcane the jaggery; likewise in the body, seek the soul by discrimination.

The low seek only wealth, the middle seek wealth and respect, but the high seek only respect; because respect is the wealth of the high.

A lamp eats darkness and in the end, lamp black is produced; likewise, the type of food that is eaten, is reflected in the body, and always gets shown to the eyes of the public.

After consuming sugarcane juice, milk, roots, betel leaves, fruits, and medicines, one should take a bath, give charity, and perform other acts.

Wealth give to the qualified, O wise one! And never to others; received ocean water from clouds as rain is always sweet; animate and inanimate, for all it renews the earth; and thereafter, a million times multiplied goes back to the ocean.