She is a true wife who is clean (suci), expert, chaste, pleasing to the husband, and truthful.
CHANAKYAHe who runs away from a fearful calamity, a foreign invasion, a terrible famine, and the companionship of wicked men is safe.
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He who has wealth has friends and relations; he alone survives and is respected as a man.
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He who runs away from a fearful calamity, a foreign invasion, a terrible famine, and the companionship of wicked men is safe.
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A still-born son is superior to a foolish son endowed with a long life. The first causes grief for but a moment while the latter like a blazing fire consumes his parents in grief for life.
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Whores don’t live in company of poor men, citizens never support a weak company and birds don’t build nests on a tree that doesn’t bear fruits.
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Wealth, a friend, a wife, and a kingdom may be regained; but this body when lost may never be acquired again.
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The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.
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A still-born son is superior to a foolish son endowed with a long life. The first causes grief for but a moment while the latter like a blazing fire consumes his parents in grief for life.
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As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.
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Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
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We should always speak what would please the man of whom we expect a favor, like the hunter who sings sweetly when he desires to shoot a deer.
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If a king is energetic, his subjects will be equally energetic.
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All types of riches should be amassed by all means.
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Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.
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Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.
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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.
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What vice could be worse than covetousness? What is more sinful than slander? For one who is truthful, what need is there for austerity? For one who has a clean heart, what is the need for pilgrimage?
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Do not put your trust in rivers, men who carry weapons, beasts with claws or horns, women, and members of a royal family.
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A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
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A debt should be paid off till the last penny; An enemy should be destroyed without a trace.
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A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.
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Time perfects men as well as destroys them.
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Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
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The king shall lose no time when the opportunity waited for arrives.
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The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
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A low-minded person should not be given good advice.
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Religion is preserved by wealth; knowledge by diligent practice; a king by conciliatory words; and a home by a dutiful housewife.
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