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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.

Chanakya

Although an ass is tired, he continues to carry his burden; he is unmindful of cold and heat; and he is always contented; these three things should be learned from the ass.
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Animal Burden Carry Cold Learning Mindset Satisfaction
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.
CHANAKYA

Abandonment Afraid Failure Happiness People Sincere Start Work
We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.
CHANAKYA

Deal Future Man Moments Past Present
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
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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Goodness Man Scripture Waste
Skills are called hidden treasure as they save like a mother in a foreign country.
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Country Foreign Hide Mom Save Skill Treasure
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
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
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Company Friendship Truth
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
My dear child, if you desire to be free from the cycle of birth and death, then abandon the objects of sense gratification as poison. Drink instead the nectar of forbearance, upright conduct, mercy, cleanliness and truth.
CHANAKYA

Abandonment Born Children Clean Death Desire Freedom Gratitude Mercy Truth
People’s Fury is above all the furies.
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Angry Important One Liner People
He who look at a woman who is not his wife as a mother; wealth that is not his as dust and all the men as himself… is a happy man. He, who sees all these things under a different light, is a blind.
CHANAKYA

Different Happiness Himself Man Mom See Wealth Wife Woman
A permanent relationship is dependent on particular purpose or wealth.
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Dependent Purpose Relationship Wealth
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
Accumulated wealth is saved by spending just as incoming fresh water is saved by letting out stagnant water.
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Money Save Water Wealth Wisdom
As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.
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Burn Destroy Family Flame Tree

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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