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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

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
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Action Born Greatness Man
Love is indicated by deeds. (and not by words)
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Action Love One Liner Word
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
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.
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Animal Burden Carry Cold Learning Mindset Satisfaction
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
Till the enemy’s weakness is known , he should be kept on friendly terms.
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Enemy Friendship Himself Weakness
He who look at a woman who is not his wife as a mother; wealth that is not his as dust and all the men as himself… is a happy man. He, who sees all these things under a different light, is a blind.
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Different Happiness Himself Man Mom See Wealth Wife Woman
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
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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Beautiful Choice Equality Family Man Marriage Respect Status Wisdom
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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Animal Greatness Person Quality Simplicity Standard
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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Build Citizenship Company Fruit Live Man Poor Support Weakness
She is a true wife who is clean (suci), expert, chaste, pleasing to the husband, and truthful.
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Beautiful Husband Truth Wife
There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.
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Equality Happiness Mercy Mindset Satisfaction Virtue
The beauty of a cuckoo is in its notes, that of a woman in her unalloyed devotion to her husband, that of an ugly person in his scholarship, and that of an ascetic in his forgiveness.
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Beautiful Devotion Education Forgiveness Husband Person Song Ugly Woman
It is better to live under a tree in a jungle inhabited by tigers and elephants, to maintain oneself in such a place with ripe fruits and spring water, to lie down on grass and to wear the ragged barks of trees than to live amongst one’s relations when reduced to poverty.
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Better Choice Live Nature Oneself Place Poor Poverty Relationship Tree Water
The king shall lose no time when the opportunity waited for arrives.
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King Lose Opportunity Patience Quick Time Wait

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.

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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.

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