Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

In looking for people to hire, look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you.

He who look at a woman who is not his wife as a mother; wealth that is not his as dust and all the men as himself... is a happy man. He, who sees all these things under a different light, is a blind.

At the time of the pralaya (universal destruction) the oceans are to exceed their limits and seek to change, but a saintly man never changes.

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

Swans live wherever there is water, and leave the place where water dries up; let not a man act so - and comes and goes as he pleases.