The position is ridiculous, the pleasure momentary and the expense damnable’, thus spake the monk who was offered a powerful position by a politician.

In material life, humility, real or feigned smooths one’s traveling path.

If your traveling companion is calm in midst of dire pain; then most probably he has kept his exit route open or least likely he has unshakable faith in God.

If you think, you are different from others, do things different from others.

A wise man knows that most of the time he is not dealing with people but with the living chaos, so with loving heart and calm mind, he employs; persuasive, pecuniary, divisive or punitive measures to tackle them, thus spake Chanakaya.

If a wise king is averse to war, he should not declare it publicly; otherwise a belligerent king would take advantage of this situation.