Evil person causes harm even if treated well.
CHANAKYAHe who has wealth has friends and relations; he alone survives and is respected as a man.
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The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.
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Even a captured enemy is not to be trusted.
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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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He who has wealth has friends and relations; he alone survives and is respected as a man.
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That man who is without religion and mercy should be rejected. A guru without spiritual knowledge should be rejected. The wife with an offensive face should be given up, and so should relatives who are without affection.
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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?
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The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.
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There are three gems upon this earth; food, water, and pleasing words – fools consider pieces of rocks as gems.
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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.
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A person becomes great not be sitting on some high seat, but through higher qualities. Can a crow become an eagle by simply sitting on the top of a palatial building?
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The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.
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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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Women have hunger two-fold, shyness four-fold, daring six-fold, and lust eight-fold as compared to men.
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Whores don’t live in company of poor men, citizens never support a weak company and birds don’t build nests on a tree that doesn’t bear fruits.
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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.
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A low-minded person should not be given good advice.
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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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A debt should be paid off till the last penny; An enemy should be destroyed without a trace.
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Till the enemy’s weakness is known , he should be kept on friendly terms.
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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.
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A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
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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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He who wears unclean garments, has dirty teeth, is a glutton, speaks unkindly and sleeps after sunrise – although he may be the greatest personality – will lose the favour of Lakshmi.
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People’s Fury is above all the furies.
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Sinfully acquired wealth may remain for ten years; in the eleventh year it disappears with even the original stock.
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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.
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