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For good days one should save money, women should be protected even if it takes the money saved. But for self preservation the money and the women should be sacrificed!!

Chanakya

All types of riches should be amassed by all means.
CHANAKYA

Conquer Rich Type
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

Beautiful Choice Equality Family Man Marriage Respect Status Wisdom
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
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
If a king is energetic, his subjects will be equally energetic.
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Affect Energy King Subject
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
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.
CHANAKYA

Clothes Dirty God Greatness Kindness Lose Personality Rise Rude Sleep Sun Talk
Do not put your trust in rivers, men who carry weapons, beasts with claws or horns, women, and members of a royal family.
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Animal Carry Family Man River Royal Trust Weapon Woman
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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Earth Nature Power Shine Sun Support Truth Wind
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
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?
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Cow Devotion God Goodness Learning Milk Son Value
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
A still-born son is superior to a foolish son endowed with a long life. The first causes grief for but a moment while the latter like a blazing fire consumes his parents in grief for life.
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Born Consumption Fire Fools Grief Life Moments Parents Son
How well you treat the wicked people, they don’t give up their wickedness. They derive pleasure in hurting others. A serpent made to drink milk, it ejects poison only.
CHANAKYA

Character Drink Give Up Happiness Hurt People Poison
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
CHANAKYA

Company Friendship Truth
Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.
CHANAKYA

Compassionate Divine Heart Mindset Need Purity Rise Talk

For good days one should save money, women should be protected even if it takes the money saved. But for self preservation the money and the women should be sacrificed!!

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