“Evil person causes harm even if treated well.”

What vice could be worse than covetousness? What is more sinful than slander? For one who is truthful, what need is there for austerity? For one who has a clean heart, what is the need for pilgrimage?

What good is a cow that neither gives milk nor conceives? Similarly, what is the value of the birth of a son if he becomes neither learned nor a pure devotee of the Lord?

Love is indicated by deeds. (and not by words)

The forest fire burns even tree like sandalwood.

Lakshmi, the Goddess of wealth, comes of Her own accord where fools are not respected, grain is well stored up, and the husband and wife do not quarrel.

Enemies strike at weak points.

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.

Learning is a friend on the journey; a wife in the house; medicine in sickness; and religious merit is the only friend after death.

The ruler should employ person in tasks according to their abilities because Knowers ( or the means ) and efficient employees make impossible tasks also possible.

Till the enemy’s weakness is known , he should be kept on friendly terms.

Let not a single day pass without your learning a verse, half a verse, or a fourth of it, or even one letter of it; nor without attending to charity, study and other pious activity.

Do not keep company with a fool for as we can see he is a two-legged beast. Like an unseen thorn he pierces the heart with his sharp words.

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

This world is a bitter tree, it has only two sweet nectar like fruits – one is soft voice and the other is company of gentlemen.

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.

Prosperity lasts long for one who acts after proper consideration.

Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.

Evil comes from a failure to think.

The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.

In the Third Reich evil lost its distinctive characteristic by which most people had until then recognized it. The Nazis redefined it as a civil norm.

I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

The greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons.

Evil thrives on apathy and cannot survive without it.

Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.