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Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

Chanakya

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
One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.
CHANAKYA

Book Knowledge Need Time Wealth
What good is a cow that neither gives milk nor conceives? Similarly, what is the value of the birth of a son if he becomes neither learned nor a pure devotee of the Lord?
CHANAKYA

Cow Devotion God Goodness Learning Milk Son Value
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.
CHANAKYA

Action Animal Effort Excellence Heart Learning Man
Time perfects all living beings as well as kills them; it alone is awake when all others are asleep. Time is insurmountable.
CHANAKYA

Alone Kill Perfection Sleep Time
All types of riches should be amassed by all means.
CHANAKYA

Conquer Rich Type
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.
CHANAKYA

Question Reason Satisfaction Start Success Thinking Work Yourself
Don’t judge the future of a person based on his present conditions, because time has the power to change black coal to shiny diamond.
CHANAKYA

Change Inspirational Judgement Patience Person Power Present Time Transformation
Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
CHANAKYA

Friendship Happiness People Yourself
Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher of poison with milk on top.
CHANAKYA

Avoid Distance Himself Hurt Poison Ruin Talk Try
The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.
CHANAKYA

Animal Children Dog Fools King People Sleep
Accumulated wealth is saved by spending just as incoming fresh water is saved by letting out stagnant water.
CHANAKYA

Money Save Water Wealth Wisdom
A learned man is honored by the people. A learned man commands respect everywhere for his learning. Indeed, learning is honored everywhere.
CHANAKYA

Education Honor Learning Man People Respect Worth
A friend, even if he be the enemy’s son , should be protected.
CHANAKYA

Enemy Friendship Protection Son
Those born blind cannot see; similarly blind are those in the grip of lust. Proud men have no perception of evil; and those bent on acquiring riches see no sin in their actions.
CHANAKYA

Action Born Control Evil Lust Man Proud Rich See Sin
She is a true wife who is clean (suci), expert, chaste, pleasing to the husband, and truthful.
CHANAKYA

Beautiful Husband Truth Wife

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

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Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

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