Wisdom Quotations | Page 6

Generosity, pleasing address, courage and propriety of conduct are not acquired, but are inbred qualities.

A learned man is honoured by the people.A learned man commands respect everywhere for his learning. Indeed, learning is honoured everywhere.

There are three gems upon this earth; food, water, and pleasing words - fools (mudhas) consider pieces of rocks as gems.

Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one's own sins.

Beauty is spoiled by an immoral nature; noble birth by bad conduct; learning, without being perfected; and wealth by not being properly utilised.

Our bodies are perishable, wealth is not at all permanent and death is always nearby. Therefore we must immediately engage in acts of merit.

He who befriends a man whose conduct is vicious, whose vision impure, and who is notoriously crooked, is rapidly ruined.

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.

Learning is a friend on the journey; a wife in the house; medicine in sickness; and religious merit is the only friend after death.

The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.