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.

He should be considered to be living who is virtuous and pious, but the life of a man who is destitute of religion and virtues is void of any blessing.

As gold is tested in four ways by rubbing, cutting, heating and beating -- so a man should be tested by these four things: his renunciation, his conduct, his qualities and his actions.

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.