He who gives up shyness in monetary dealings, in acquiring knowledge, in eating and in business, becomes happy.

Women have hunger two-fold, shyness four-fold, daring six-fold, and lust eight-fold as compared to men.

The shyness residing in your private life should never make your company media shy.

Friendship between equals flourishes, service under a king is respectable, it is good to be business-minded in public dealings, and a handsome lady is safe in her own home.

Those who are destitute of learning, penance, knowledge, good disposition, virtue and benevolence are brutes wandering the earth in the form of men. They are burdensome to the earth.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.