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.

As water collected in a tank gets pure by filtration, so accumulated wealth is preserved by being employed in charity.

He who loses his money is forsaken by his friends, his wife, his servants and his relations; yet when he regains his riches those who have forsaken him come back to him. Hence wealth is certainly the best of relations.

He who has wealth has friends and relations; he alone survives and is respected as a man.

Save your wealth against future calamity. Do not say, "what fear has a rich man of calamity?" Wealth sometimes vanishes away and large accumulations perish.

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.