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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

Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
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Abandonment Afraid Failure Happiness People Sincere Start Work
Our bodies are perishable, wealth is not at all permanent and death is always nearby. Therefore we must immediately engage in acts of merit.
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Act Body Death Engagement Ourselves Wealth Wisdom
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
Let not a single day pass without your learning a verse, half a verse, or a fourth of it, or even one letter of it; nor without attending to charity, study and other pious activity.
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Activity Charity Education Learning Religious Study
Enemies strike at weak points.
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Attack Enemy One Liner Weakness
Rain which falls upon the sea is useless; so is food for one who is satiated; in vain is a gift for one who is wealthy; and a burning lamp during the daytime is useless.
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Day Fall Food Gift Rain Sea Waste Wealth
Sinfully acquired wealth may remain for ten years; in the eleventh year it disappears with even the original stock.
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Disappear Original Sin Time Wealth
The king shall lose no time when the opportunity waited for arrives.
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King Lose Opportunity Patience Quick Time Wait
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.
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Crazy Ego Person Respect Sanity Truth Win Wisdom
Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one’s own sins.
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Born Evil Fruit Oneself Poor Poverty Prison Sick Sin Tree
The learned are envied by the foolish; rich men by the poor; chaste women by adulteresses; and beautiful ladies by ugly ones.
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Adult Beautiful Fools Jealous Learning Ugly Woman
He who has wealth has friends and relations; he alone survives and is respected as a man.
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Alone Friendship Man Relationship Respect Survive Wealth
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
A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.
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Alone Born Death Experience Goodness Hell Heaven Karma Man Result
Water is the medicine for indigestion; it is invigorating when the food that is eaten is well digested; it is like nectar when drunk in the middle of a dinner; and it is like poison when taken at the end of a meal.
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Change Eat Food Medicine Poison Water
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

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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