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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

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
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.
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Character Drink Give Up Happiness Hurt People Poison
The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
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Beautiful Big Power Woman World Youth
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
Time perfects men as well as destroys them.
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Destroy Man Perfection Time
There is no disease so destructive as lust.
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Dangerous Destruction Lust Moral One Liner Sick
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
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
Low class men desire wealth;middle class men both wealth and respect; but the noble, honour only; hence honour is the noble man’s true wealth.
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Desire Difference Man Noble Respect Standard True Wealth Worth
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
Brass is polished by ashes; copper is cleaned by tamarind; a woman, by her menses; and a river by its flow.
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Cleaning Flow Metal River Woman
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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Day Goodness Money Preserve Protection Sacrifice Save Woman
Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher of poison with milk on top.
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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
Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear.
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Charity End Fear Ignorance Poor Poverty
It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.
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