Save your wealth against future calamity.

O see what a wonder it is! The doings of the great are strange: they treat wealth as light as a straw, yet, when they obtain it, they bend under its weight.

We should secure and keep the following: the blessings of meritorious deeds, wealth, grain, the words of the spiritual master, and rare medicines. Otherwise life becomes impossible.

He who has wealth has friends and relations; he alone survives and is respected as a man.

He who is prepared for the future and he who deals cleverly with any situation that may arise are both happy; but the fatalistic man who wholly depends on luck is ruined.

Accumulated wealth is saved by spending just as incoming fresh water is saved by letting out stagnant water.