1.Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
2.The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.
3.A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first
4.Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.
5.There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
6.Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
7.O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet
8.never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.
9.Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous
10.Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.
11.One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.
12.We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment
13.The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.
14.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.
15.A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night. unaskia @TrumanCapote