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Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.

Chanakya

Accumulated wealth is saved by spending just as incoming fresh water is saved by letting out stagnant water.
CHANAKYA

Money Save Water Wealth Wisdom
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?
CHANAKYA

Deep Heart Need Oneself Philosophy Sin Truth Vice Wisdom Worst
Evil person causes harm even if treated well.
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Evil Harm Person Treat
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?
CHANAKYA

Body Control Death Distance Health Save Soul Try Yourself
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
Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
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Difficult Fortune Friendship Judgement Relationship Servant Service Trouble Wife
The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.
CHANAKYA

Bite Dog Education End Life Man Protection
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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Bitter Company Fruit Man Place World
The beauty of a cuckoo is in its notes, that of a woman in her unalloyed devotion to her husband, that of an ugly person in his scholarship, and that of an ascetic in his forgiveness.
CHANAKYA

Beautiful Devotion Education Forgiveness Husband Person Song Ugly Woman
Beauty is spoiled by an immoral nature; noble birth by bad conduct; learning, without being perfected; and wealth by not being properly utilised.
CHANAKYA

Beautiful Destroy Moral Nature Proper Ruin Wealth
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.
CHANAKYA

Born Consumption Fire Fools Grief Life Moments Parents Son
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
Considersing the forebearance of a person, Do not harass him.
CHANAKYA

Abuse Compassionate Justice Person
Learning is a friend on the journey; a wife in the house; medicine in sickness; and religious merit is the only friend after death.
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Death Friendship Home Journey Learning Medicine Religious Sick Wife
As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.
CHANAKYA

Burn Destroy Family Flame Tree
Prosperity lasts long for one who acts after proper consideration.
CHANAKYA

Act Prosperity Responsibility Thinking

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