One who is in search of knowledge should give up the search of pleasure and the one who is in search of pleasure should give up the search of knowledge.
CHANAKYANever make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
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Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear.
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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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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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Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
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Time perfects men as well as destroys them.
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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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A low-minded person should not be given good advice.
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He who wears unclean garments, has dirty teeth, is a glutton, speaks unkindly and sleeps after sunrise – although he may be the greatest personality – will lose the favour of Lakshmi.
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A thing may be dreaded as long as it has not overtaken you.
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A wise man should marry a virgin of a respectable family even if she is deformed. He should not marry one of a low-class family, through beauty. Marriage in a family of equal status is preferable.
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He who gives up shyness in monetary dealings, in acquiring knowledge, in eating and in business, becomes happy.
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Prosperity lasts long for one who acts after proper consideration.
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Considersing the forebearance of a person, Do not harass him.
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Accumulated wealth is saved by spending just as incoming fresh water is saved by letting out stagnant water.
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All types of riches should be amassed by all means.
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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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The foolish wish to speak out what was spoken in secret by the master.
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There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
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The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
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Our bodies are perishable, wealth is not at all permanent and death is always nearby. Therefore we must immediately engage in acts of merit.
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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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What good can the scriptures do to a man who has no sense of his own? Of what use is as mirror to a blind man?
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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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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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When one is consumed by the sorrows of life, three things give him relief: offspring, a wife, and the company of the Lord’s devotees.
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Enemies strike at weak points.
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