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No, this tremendous amount of knowledge, collected and preserved by successive generations of wise Brahmins, could not be easily overlooked. But where were the Brahmins, the wise men, the priests who were successful in not only having this most profound knowledge, but in living it?

An oak is not felled by a single blow of the axe.

A lawyer must be told things frankly; then it's up to us to muddle them up.

People are more inclined to believe in bad intentions than in good ones.

Wrongs committed in the distant past are far easier to condemn than to rectify.

The general practice is for the secret to be confided only to an equally trustworthy friend, the same conditions being imposed on him. And so from trustworthy friend to trustworthy friend the secret goes moving on round that immense chain, until finally it reaches the ears of just the very person or persons whom the first talker had expressly intended it never should reach.

Every person born into this world has a natural right to sustain, preserve, and defend his own life to the best of his ability.

A just king must be the first to observe those laws that he has himself prescribed.

The nature of wit is such that its bite must be like that of a sheep rather than a dog, for if it were to bite the listener like a dog, it would no longer be wit but abuse.

The deceived has the better of the deceiver.

The power of the pen is far greater than those people suppose who have not proved it by experience.

In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.