678 Quotes About Aphorisms

Lack of virtue tarnishes beauty, bad conduct tarnishes lineage, non-perfection tarnishes knowledge, improper utilization tarnishes wealth.

Water flowing under the ground is pure, a faithful wife is pure, a benefactor king is pure, a contented Brahmin is pure.

An unsatisfied Brahmin is destroyed, a satisfied king is destroyed, a prostitute having shame is destroyed, and a shameless woman of a noble family is destroyed.

Of what use is a birth in a high-status family for one who is without learning? Although born in a low-status family, the learned one is worshipped like a god.

A scholar is honoured by the people, a scholar is worshipped everywhere, a learned man enables everyone to profit, learning is everywhere worshipped.

Meat-eating, alcohol-drinking, foolish, unlearned, beastly men, are burdens whose weight the earth suffers.

Without food, the kingdom burns; without Mantra, the priest; without charity, the patron; thus, there is no enemy like a Yagna.

O liberation desiring! Become aware and discard like poison the subject-object identification; drink the nectar of forgiveness, simplicity, mercy, purity, and truth.

The sensitive secrets that are known only between themselves, if spoken out by any of them, then that vile man destroys himself like a serpent straying in an anthill.