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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.

Chanakya

One’s weakness should not ever be revealed.
CHANAKYA

Oneself Reveal Weakness
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.
CHANAKYA

Animal Burden Carry Cold Learning Mindset Satisfaction
The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.
CHANAKYA

Destroy Secret Share Yourself
Do not keep company with a fool for as we can see he is a two-legged beast. Like an unseen thorn he pierces the heart with his sharp words.
CHANAKYA

Company Fools Heart Himself Pieces See Word
A friend, even if he be the enemy’s son , should be protected.
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Enemy Friendship Protection Son
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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Adversity Attack Company Fear Foreign Friendship Man Run Safety War
The low minded are fond of deception the nature of low-minded people never changes.
CHANAKYA

Change Mindset Nature People Standard
There is no disease so destructive as lust.
CHANAKYA

Dangerous Destruction Lust Moral One Liner Sick
He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.
CHANAKYA

Attachment Deep Experience Family Fear Grief Happiness Oneself Sorrow Wisdom
Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.
CHANAKYA

Break Fools Fruit Person Stupidity Tree Virtual
A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
CHANAKYA

Harm Honesty People Person Tree Trouble
The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
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Beautiful Big Power Woman World Youth
Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.
CHANAKYA

Dangerous Poison Pretend Safety
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

Animal Bold Easy Learning Privacy Sex Store Trust Unity
Learning is a friend on the journey; a wife in the house; medicine in sickness; and religious merit is the only friend after death.
CHANAKYA

Death Friendship Home Journey Learning Medicine Religious Sick Wife
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

Bitter Company Fruit Man Place World

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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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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