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This world is a bitter tree, it has only two sweet nectar like fruits – one is soft voice and the other is company of gentlemen.

Chanakya

Accumulated wealth is saved by spending just as incoming fresh water is saved by letting out stagnant water.
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A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.
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There is no disease so destructive as lust.
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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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Time perfects all living beings as well as kills them; it alone is awake when all others are asleep. Time is insurmountable.
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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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The foolish wish to speak out what was spoken in secret by the master.
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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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They (low-minded) ones should never be trusted.
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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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Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.
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All types of riches should be amassed by all means.
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Evil person causes harm even if treated well.
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The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.
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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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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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This world is a bitter tree, it has only two sweet nectar like fruits – one is soft voice and the other is company of gentlemen.

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