The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.
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.
As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.
Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.
A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
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