The fire of the forest burns trees to ashes. Even expensive sandalwood tree which is endowed with qualities of cooling and fragrance, cannot escape from burning. In the same way wicked cause harm to their benefactors also.

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.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

I have the capacity of being more wicked than any example that man could set me.

Separation from the wife, disgrace from one's own people, an enemy saved in battle, service to a wicked king, poverty, and a mismanaged assembly: these six kinds of evils, if afflicting a person, burn him even without fire.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.