The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm.
So long as the love, even the smallest, of man toward woman is not destroyed, so long is his mind in bondage as the calf that drinks milk is to its mother.
If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current-how can he help others across?
The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.
There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.
A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.
The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
A learned man is honoured by the people.A learned man commands respect everywhere for his learning. Indeed, learning is honoured everywhere.
One destitute of wealth is not destitute, he is indeed rich, but the man devoid of learning is destitute in every way.
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.
As a calf follows its mother among a thousand cows, so the (good or bad) deeds of a man follow him.
A wise man should marry a virgin of a respectable family even if she is deformed. He should not marry one of a low-class family, through beauty. Marriage in a family of equal status is preferable.
He who has wealth has friends and relations; he alone survives and is respected as a man.
Defect in one's limb ruins a man.
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.
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.
A wise man should not divulge the formula of a medicine which he has well prepared; an act of charity which he has performed; domestic conflicts; private affairs with his wife; poorly prepared food he may have been offered; or slang he may have heard.
A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman.
Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
