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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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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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Question Reason Satisfaction Start Success Thinking Work Yourself
A permanent relationship is dependent on particular purpose or wealth.
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Dependent Purpose Relationship Wealth
Union in privacy (with one’s wife); boldness; storing away useful items; watchfulness; and not easily trusting others; these five things are to be learned from a crow.
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Animal Bold Easy Learning Privacy Sex Store Trust Unity
A debt should be paid off till the last penny; An enemy should be destroyed without a trace.
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Destroy Enemy Money Pay
If one limb of the body is defected or inflicted with, disease, the whole feels that pain. Some way if any department, minister or official of the state is faulty, the whole country is effected. An administrator should try hard to curb it.
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Affect Body Corruption Country Feeling Hard Oneself Pain Sick Try
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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Home King Knowledge Practice Preserve Religion Wealth Wife Word
The forest fire burns even tree like sandalwood.
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Burn Equality Fire Forest Tree
The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
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Beautiful Big Power Woman World Youth
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
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Beautiful Best Education Friendship Person Respect Worth Youth
The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.
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Destroy Secret Share Yourself
Evil person causes harm even if treated well.
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Evil Harm Person Treat
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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Animal Carry Family Man River Royal Trust Weapon Woman
A wicked wife, a false friend, a saucy servant and living in a house with a serpent in it are nothing but death.
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Animal Death Fake Friendship Live Servant Wife
A person becomes great not be sitting on some high seat, but through higher qualities. Can a crow become an eagle by simply sitting on the top of a palatial building?
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Animal Greatness Person Quality Simplicity Standard
Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others destroy themselves like serpents that stray onto anthills.
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Lost Man Mistake Secret Talk
Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.
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Break Fools Fruit Person Stupidity Tree Virtual

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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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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