“Time perfects all living beings as well as kills them; it alone is awake when all others are asleep. Time is insurmountable.”

A permanent relationship is dependent on particular purpose or wealth.

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.

Brass is polished by ashes; copper is cleaned by tamarind; a woman, by her menses; and a river by its flow.

Accumulated wealth is saved by spending just as incoming fresh water is saved by letting out stagnant water.

People’s Fury is above all the furies.

If one limb of the body is defected or inflicted with, disease, the whole feels that pain. Some way if any department, minister or official of the state is faulty, the whole country is effected. An administrator should try hard to curb it.

A man attains greatness by his merits, not simply by occupying an exalted seat. Can we call a crow an eagle simply because he sits on the top of a tall building?

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

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

Although an ass is tired, he continues to carry his burden; he is unmindful of cold and heat; and he is always contented; these three things should be learned from the ass.

If a king is energetic, his subjects will be equally energetic.

Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one’s own sins.

A friend, even if he be the enemy’s son , should be protected.

How well you treat the wicked people, they don’t give up their wickedness. They derive pleasure in hurting others. A serpent made to drink milk, it ejects poison only.

That man who is without religion and mercy should be rejected. A guru without spiritual knowledge should be rejected. The wife with an offensive face should be given up, and so should relatives who are without affection.

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.

Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.

On paper I have killed you a thousand times but my heart disregards clever words.

I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace. They are medicine, and I would eventually die a lingering death. I had rather die on the field of battle.

I ain’t afraid to love a man. I ain’t afraid to shoot him either.

He was exactly like hitting a red light during a killer streak of green.

First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.

I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.

On reaching the place where the Indians had surprised us, we found the bodies of the three men whom they had killed and scalped, and literally cut into pieces.