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A wise man should marry a virgin of a respectable family even if she is deformed. He should not marry one of a low-class family, through beauty. Marriage in a family of equal status is preferable.

Chanakya

Brass is polished by ashes; copper is cleaned by tamarind; a woman, by her menses; and a river by its flow.
CHANAKYA

Cleaning Flow Metal River Woman
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
Even a captured enemy is not to be trusted.
CHANAKYA

Capture Enemy Prison Trust
One’s weakness should not ever be revealed.
CHANAKYA

Oneself Reveal Weakness
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
Do not put your trust in a bad companion nor even trust an ordinary friend, for if he should get angry with you, he may bring all your secrets to light.
CHANAKYA

Angry Bad Betrayal Company Friendship Himself Light Ordinary Secret Trust
When one is consumed by the sorrows of life, three things give him relief: offspring, a wife, and the company of the Lord’s devotees.
CHANAKYA

Children Company Consumption Devotion God Hard Time Life Oneself relief Sorrow Wife
The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.
CHANAKYA

Character Direction Flower Fragrance Goodness Person Wind
Accumulated wealth is saved by spending just as incoming fresh water is saved by letting out stagnant water.
CHANAKYA

Money Save Water Wealth Wisdom
Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear.
CHANAKYA

Charity End Fear Ignorance Poor Poverty
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?
CHANAKYA

Goodness Man Scripture Waste
Knowledge is lost without putting it into practice; a man is lost due to ignorance; an army is lost without a commander; and a woman is lost without a husband.
CHANAKYA

Army Husband Ignorance Knowledge Leadership Lost Man Practice Woman
People’s Fury is above all the furies.
CHANAKYA

Angry Important One Liner People
Offspring, friends and relatives flee from a devotee of the Lord: yet those who follow him bring merit to their families through their devotion.
CHANAKYA

Devotion Family Friendship God Relative Respect
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.
CHANAKYA

Affect Body Corruption Country Feeling Hard Oneself Pain Sick Try
The low minded are fond of deception the nature of low-minded people never changes.
CHANAKYA

Change Mindset Nature People Standard

A wise man should marry a virgin of a respectable family even if she is deformed. He should not marry one of a low-class family, through beauty. Marriage in a family of equal status is preferable.

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