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Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

Chanakya

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
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The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.
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The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.
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Offspring, friends and relatives flee from a devotee of the Lord: yet those who follow him bring merit to their families through their devotion.
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My dear child, if you desire to be free from the cycle of birth and death, then abandon the objects of sense gratification as poison. Drink instead the nectar of forbearance, upright conduct, mercy, cleanliness and truth.
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Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.
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A low-minded person should not be given good advice.
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Sinfully acquired wealth may remain for ten years; in the eleventh year it disappears with even the original stock.
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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.
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Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.
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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.
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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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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?
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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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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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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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Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

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