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

Sinfully acquired wealth may remain for ten years; in the eleventh year it disappears with even the original stock.

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.

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

A man or a ruler should always take up a task after thoroughly considering its consequences. Otherwise fate also cannot protect his wealth.

He who has wealth has friends.