These six are to be renounced like a sinking ship at sea: a teacher who cannot expound the scriptures, a priest who is illiterate, a king who cannot protect, a wife who speaks unpleasant words, a herdsman who is unwilling to go to the pastures, and a barber who wishes to abandon the village for the forest. These six qualities, indeed, should never be forsaken by people: truth, mercy, diligence, benevolence, forgiveness, and patience. These six are instantly destroyed if neglected: cattle, service, agriculture, a wife, learning, and the wealth of a shudra. These six forget those who placed them under obligation: educated disciples forget their teachers; married men forget their mothers; those whose desires have been satisfied forget the women who satisfied them; the successful forget those who helped them; those who have crossed a river forget the boat that carried them across; and cured patients forget their physicians. Health, freedom from debt, living at home, association with good people, confidence in one's livelihood, and a life free from fear — these six, O king, contribute to the happiness of men.