• Learn from the mistakes of others...you can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

• A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

• Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

• A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

• A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

• Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

• A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

• The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

• He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.

• Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

• Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

• Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

• As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

• We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

• God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.

• He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

• The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.

• Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

• The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

• There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

• There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

• The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.

• Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

• Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.

• O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

• Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

• The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.

• As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

• As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

• The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

• One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

• Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

• The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.

• Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

• It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life.

• The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

• If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

• There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.

• The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

• A debt should be paid off till the last penny, and an enemy should be destroyed till last trace.

• A human being should strive for four things in life — dharma (duty), artha (money), kama (pleasure) and moksha (salvation). A person who hasn't striven for even one of these things has wasted life.

• A rich man has many friends.

• Women have hunger two-fold, shyness four-fold, daring six-fold, and lust eight-fold as compared to men.

• An egoist can be won over by being respected, a crazy person can be won over by allowing him to behave in an insane manner and a wise person can be won over by truth.

• As centesimal droppings will fill a pot so also are knowledge, virtue and wealth gradually obtained.

• Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher of poison with milk on top.

• He who befriends a man whose conduct is vicious, whose vision impure, and who is notoriously crooked, is rapidly ruined.

• Don't hesitate to learn something even from the most lowly of creatures.

• In a state where the ruler lives like a common man, the citizens live like kings. And in the state where the ruler lives like a king, the citizens live like beggars.

• Jealousy is another name for failure.

• Never go on a long journey alone.

• Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
•         Variant version: Friendship should be among equals.

• One who is in search of knowledge should give up the search of pleasure and the one who is in search of pleasure should give up the search of knowledge.

• The four greatest enemies of a man are — the father who has taken a loan, the characterless mother, the beautiful but promiscuous wife and the stupid child.

• Whores don't live in company of poor men, birds don't build nests on a tree that doesn't bear fruits and citizens never support a weak administration.

• Wise men should never go into a country where there are no means of earning one's livelihood, where the people have no dread of anybody, have no sense of shame, no intelligence, or a charitable disposition.