“Evil person causes harm even if treated well.”

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.

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

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.

The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.

Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.

Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one’s share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.

Evil people you never forget them. And that’s the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.

Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.

It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.

Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.

The great sickness and the grievous evil consist in this: that all the things that man finds written in books, he presumes to think of as true-and all the more so if the books are old.