For after death neither father, nor mother, nor son, nor wife, nor relations are his companions; his virtue alone remains with him.

The relations leave the dead body, but its virtue follows the spirit: with his virtue as his companion he will traverse the darkness that is hard to cross; and virtue will lead him to the other world with a luminous form and ethereal body.

A priest that makes low connections is reborn as a slave.

The Father-god permits a priest to accept alms even from a bad man.

For fifteen years the Manes refuse to accept food from one that despises a free gift.