In this world, whose family is there without blemish? Who is free from sickness and grief? Who is forever happy?

Even a pandit comes to grief by giving instruction to a foolish disciple, by maintaining a wicked wife, and by excessive familiarity with the miserable.

What is the use of having many sons if they cause grief and vexation?

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

Therefore kings gather round themselves men of good families, for they never forsake them either at the beginning, the middle or the end.

It is better to live under a tree in a jungle inhabited by tigers and elephants, to maintain oneself in such a place with ripe fruits and spring water, to lie down on grass and to wear the ragged barks of trees than to live amongst one's relations when reduced to poverty.