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A thing may be dreaded as long as it has not overtaken you.

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She is a true wife who is clean (suci), expert, chaste, pleasing to the husband, and truthful.
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Beautiful Husband Truth Wife
A man attains greatness by his merits, not simply by occupying an exalted seat. Can we call a crow an eagle simply because he sits on the top of a tall building?
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Greatness Man Quality Reason Simplicity
A learned man is honored by the people. A learned man commands respect everywhere for his learning. Indeed, learning is honored everywhere.
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Education Honor Learning Man People Respect Worth
The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.
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Destroy Secret Share Yourself
A low-minded person should not be given good advice.
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Advice Goodness Mindset Person Wasted Time
It is better to live under a tree in a jungle inhabited by tigers and elephants, to maintain oneself in such a place with ripe fruits and spring water, to lie down on grass and to wear the ragged barks of trees than to live amongst one’s relations when reduced to poverty.
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Better Choice Live Nature Oneself Place Poor Poverty Relationship Tree Water
People’s Fury is above all the furies.
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Angry Important One Liner People
The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.
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Action Animal Effort Excellence Heart Learning Man
If a king is energetic, his subjects will be equally energetic.
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Affect Energy King Subject
Prosperity lasts long for one who acts after proper consideration.
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Act Prosperity Responsibility Thinking
There are three gems upon this earth; food, water, and pleasing words – fools consider pieces of rocks as gems.
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Earth Food Fools Rock Thinking Water Word Worth
A permanent relationship is dependent on particular purpose or wealth.
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Dependent Purpose Relationship Wealth
As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?
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Body Control Death Distance Health Save Soul Try Yourself
Water is the medicine for indigestion; it is invigorating when the food that is eaten is well digested; it is like nectar when drunk in the middle of a dinner; and it is like poison when taken at the end of a meal.
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Change Eat Food Medicine Poison Water
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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Born Consumption Fire Fools Grief Life Moments Parents Son
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 thing may be dreaded as long as it has not overtaken you.

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