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Rain which falls upon the sea is useless; so is food for one who is satiated; in vain is a gift for one who is wealthy; and a burning lamp during the daytime is useless.

Chanakya

The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.
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Destroy Secret Share Yourself
If a king is energetic, his subjects will be equally energetic.
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Affect Energy King Subject
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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Deep Heart Need Oneself Philosophy Sin Truth Vice Wisdom Worst
A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.
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Evil person causes harm even if treated well.
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Evil Harm Person Treat
How well you treat the wicked people, they don’t give up their wickedness. They derive pleasure in hurting others. A serpent made to drink milk, it ejects poison only.
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Character Drink Give Up Happiness Hurt People Poison
Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
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Abandonment Afraid Failure Happiness People Sincere Start Work
Low class men desire wealth;middle class men both wealth and respect; but the noble, honour only; hence honour is the noble man’s true wealth.
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Desire Difference Man Noble Respect Standard True Wealth Worth
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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That man who is without religion and mercy should be rejected. A guru without spiritual knowledge should be rejected. The wife with an offensive face should be given up, and so should relatives who are without affection.
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God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.
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Belief Feeling God Idol Present Soul Temple Yourself
Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.
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The beauty of a cuckoo is in its notes, that of a woman in her unalloyed devotion to her husband, that of an ugly person in his scholarship, and that of an ascetic in his forgiveness.
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Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.
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A low-minded person should not be given good advice.
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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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Rain which falls upon the sea is useless; so is food for one who is satiated; in vain is a gift for one who is wealthy; and a burning lamp during the daytime is useless.

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