Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.
Perhaps that dawn will come from this horizon, from the East where the sun rises. A day will come when unvanquished Man will retrace his path of conquest, despite all barriers, to win back his lost human heritage.
We try to realize the essential unity of the world with the conscious soul of man; we learn to perceive the unity held together by the one Eternal Spirit, whose power creates the earth, the sky, and the stars, and at the same time irradiates our mind.
The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.
The ignorant man is an ox. He grows in size, not in wisdom.
The virtuous man delights in this world and he delights in the next.
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.
