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A learned man is honored by the people. A learned man commands respect everywhere for his learning. Indeed, learning is honored everywhere.

Chanakya

Evil person causes harm even if treated well.
CHANAKYA

Evil Harm Person Treat
When one is consumed by the sorrows of life, three things give him relief: offspring, a wife, and the company of the Lord’s devotees.
CHANAKYA

Children Company Consumption Devotion God Hard Time Life Oneself relief Sorrow Wife
The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.
CHANAKYA

Destroy Secret Share Yourself
Your feelings are your god.
CHANAKYA

Feeling God One Liner Yourself
Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one’s own sins.
CHANAKYA

Born Evil Fruit Oneself Poor Poverty Prison Sick Sin Tree
An egoist can be won over by being respected, a crazy person can be won over by allowing him to behave in an insane manner and a wise person can be won over by truth.
CHANAKYA

Crazy Ego Person Respect Sanity Truth Win Wisdom
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.
CHANAKYA

Bite Dog Education End Life Man Protection
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.
CHANAKYA

Beautiful Devotion Education Forgiveness Husband Person Song Ugly Woman
Our bodies are perishable, wealth is not at all permanent and death is always nearby. Therefore we must immediately engage in acts of merit.
CHANAKYA

Act Body Death Engagement Ourselves Wealth Wisdom
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.
CHANAKYA

Affect Body Corruption Country Feeling Hard Oneself Pain Sick Try
Even a captured enemy is not to be trusted.
CHANAKYA

Capture Enemy Prison Trust
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.
CHANAKYA

Animal Desire Expectation Hunt Kill Man Shoot Sing Talk
They (low-minded) ones should never be trusted.
CHANAKYA

Betrayal Mindset Trust
As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.
CHANAKYA

Burn Destroy Family Flame Tree
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.
CHANAKYA

Earth Nature Power Shine Sun Support Truth Wind
The forest fire burns even tree like sandalwood.
CHANAKYA

Burn Equality Fire Forest Tree

A learned man is honored by the people. A learned man commands respect everywhere for his learning. Indeed, learning is honored everywhere.

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