1. One should save his money against hard times, save his wife at the sacrifice of his riches, but invariably one should save his soul even at the sacrifice of his wife and riches.
2.Do not inhabit a country where you are not respected, cannot earn your livelihood, have no friends, or cannot acquire knowledge.
3. Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
4. Do not put your trust in rivers, men who carry weapons, beasts with claws or horns, women, and members of a royal family.
5. Women have hunger two-fold, shyness four-fold, daring six-fold, and lust eight-fold as compared to men.
6. They alone are sons who are devoted to their father. He is a father who supports his sons. He is a friend in whom we can confide, and she only is a wife in whose company the husband feels contented and peaceful.
7. 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.
8. The prostitute has to forsake a man who has no money, the subject a king that cannot defend him, the birds in a tree that bears no fruit, and the guests in a house after they have finished their meals.
9. Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.
10. The hearts of base men burn before the fire of other's fame, and they slander them being themselves unable to rise to such a high position.
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