A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

What good is a cow that neither gives milk nor conceives? Similarly, what is the value of the birth of a son if he becomes neither learned nor a pure devotee of the Lord?

My dear child, if you desire to be free from the cycle of birth and death, then abandon the objects of sense gratification as poison. Drink instead the nectar of forbearance, upright conduct, mercy, cleanliness and truth.

As a calf follows its mother among a thousand cows, so the (good or bad) deeds of a man follow him.

Do not say, ""What what fear has a rich man of calamity?"" When riches begin to forsake one even the accumulated stock dwindles away.

Fate makes a beggar a king and a king a beggar. He makes a rich man poor and a poor man rich.