Vidura's Neeties

I have not updated all rules but some important rules which help you to understand yourself where are you? Here are some rules of life which described by Vidura:

1) Do not inhabit or stay in a country where you are not respected, cannot earn your livelihood, have no friends and relatives, or cannot acquire knowledge.

2) Wife, son and servant do not have the authority over the wealth, they earn because they themselves are under the authority of Husband, Father and Master respectively
3)  Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise counsel keep it secret, being determined to carry it into execution.

4) Whether one has or does not have wealth, he must be hospitable to his friends. One should never demand anything from their friends, trying to examine their worthiness

5) Consider again and again the following: the right time, the right friends, the right place, the right means of income, the right ways of spending, and from whom you derive your power.

6) The nature of a wicked man is restless (very sensitive) like the clouds, all of a sudden, they become angry and happy without any apparent reason

7) Neither use foul language on others nor show disrespect to othres. Never have enmity with close friends and never do a service to a degenerate man, never be lacking in virtue, morality and arrogant. Shun dry and angry speech.

8)A wise man should not reveal his loss of wealth, the vexation of his mind, the misconduct of his own wife, base words spoken by others, and disgrace that has been fallen him.

9) One who tells a lie to acquire gold, sends all his past and future generations into hell. One who tells a lie to acquire land and woman looses everything and is doomed

10) Even if unasked, one should speak truly, whether his words be good or bad, hateful or pleasing, unto him whose defeat one does not wish.

11) To control speech is said to be most difficult. It is not easy to hold a long conversation uttering words full of meaning and delightful to the hearers. Well-spoken speech is productive of many beneficial results; and ill-spoken speech is the cause of evil. A forest pierced by arrows, or cut down by hatchets may again grow, but one’s heart wounded and censured by ill-spoken words never recovers.