The good indeed praise wisdom; people are fond of wealth and so covet fortune (rank); but the knowledge of the wise cannot be weighed, and so wealth can never surpass wisdom.
One who ponders deep questions in his mind, who does no evil deed that brings no benefit, who does not abandon the path of benefit when its time comes — the wise call such a one a person of wisdom.
A fool, though he has rank, is the slave of the wise; when matters arise, whatever a clever person handles adroitly, the fool falls into confusion over.
Wisdom is the means of judging what has been heard; wisdom increases honour and renown; a person endowed with wisdom in this world finds happiness even in suffering.
Of all kinds of satiety, satiety with wisdom is the best; one sated with wisdom is not tormented by sensual desire; craving cannot bring one sated with wisdom under its power.
The wise one sees the strands of sensual pleasure as impermanent, as suffering and as disease; seeing thus, he abandons desire for sensual pleasures, which are suffering and a great danger.