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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

Religion is preserved by wealth; knowledge by diligent practice; a king by conciliatory words; and a home by a dutiful housewife.
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Home King Knowledge Practice Preserve Religion Wealth Wife Word
The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
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Beautiful Big Power Woman World Youth
Rain which falls upon the sea is useless; so is food for one who is satiated; in vain is a gift for one who is wealthy; and a burning lamp during the daytime is useless.
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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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Break Fools Fruit Person Stupidity Tree Virtual
Time perfects men as well as destroys them.
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Destroy Man Perfection Time
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 biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.
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Destroy Secret Share Yourself
Beauty is spoiled by an immoral nature; noble birth by bad conduct; learning, without being perfected; and wealth by not being properly utilised.
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Beautiful Destroy Moral Nature Proper Ruin Wealth
They (low-minded) ones should never be trusted.
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Betrayal Mindset Trust
A ruler wishing to win should not trust a captured enemy even if he may be extending had to be friend. Because deep rooted enmity, however, concealed, will surely come to light.
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Capture Deep Enemy Friendship King Light Prison Rule Trust Win
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.
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Deal Future Man Moments Past Present
Women have hunger two-fold, shyness four-fold, daring six-fold, and lust eight-fold as compared to men.
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Comparison Dare Lust Man Shy Woman
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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Goodness Himself Husband Love Marriage Mom Morning Night Service Sex Wife
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?
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Body Control Death Distance Health Save Soul Try Yourself
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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Alone Born Death Experience Goodness Hell Heaven Karma Man Result
The ruler should employ person in tasks according to their abilities because Knowers ( or the means ) and efficient employees make impossible tasks also possible.
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Ability Determination Employment Impossible King Possible Rule

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.

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