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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.

Chanakya

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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Goodness Man Scripture Waste
Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.
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Action Carry Determination Execution Reveal Secret Thinking Wisdom
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
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
Prosperity lasts long for one who acts after proper consideration.
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Act Prosperity Responsibility Thinking
The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.
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Bite Dog Education End Life Man Protection
One who is in search of knowledge should give up the search of pleasure and the one who is in search of pleasure should give up the search of knowledge.
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Give Up Knowledge Oneself Sacrifice Search
The forest fire burns even tree like sandalwood.
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Burn Equality Fire Forest Tree
We should always speak what would please the man of whom we expect a favor, like the hunter who sings sweetly when he desires to shoot a deer.
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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 debt should be paid off till the last penny; An enemy should be destroyed without a trace.
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Destroy Enemy Money Pay
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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Better Death Grace Grief Life Loss Moments Oneself Pain Respect
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
Lakshmi, the Goddess of wealth, comes of Her own accord where fools are not respected, grain is well stored up, and the husband and wife do not quarrel.
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He who gives up shyness in monetary dealings, in acquiring knowledge, in eating and in business, becomes happy.
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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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