Let a man mark the quick increase of a white ant’s nest, and suffer no — Hitopadesha

"He whose days pass without imparting and enjoying, is like the bellows of a smith: he breathes indeed, but he does not live."

"The natural disposition is hard to overcome. If you make a dog a king, will he not still gnaw leather (literally, gnaw his shoe-strap)."

"In disuse, knowledge is poison. In indigestion, food is poison."

"In the sandal-trees are serpents. In the waters are lotuses, but alligators also. In our enjoyments are envious spies. No pleasures are unimpeded."

"A work prospers through endeavors, not through vows. The fawn runs not into the mouth of a sleeping lion."

"Learning is a companion on a journey to a strange country. Learning is strength inexhaustible. A man without learning is a beast of the field."