To have ability for eating when dishes are ready at hand to be robust and virile in the company of one's religiously wedded wife and to have a mind for making charity when one is prosperous are the fruits of no ordinary austerities.
Give up a member to save a family, a family to save a village, a village to save a country, and the country to save yourself.
It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life.
A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does, and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.
Do not inhabit a country where you are not respected, cannot earn your livelihood, have no friends or cannot acquire knowledge.
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