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That man who is without religion and mercy should be rejected. A guru without spiritual knowledge should be rejected. The wife with an offensive face should be given up, and so should relatives who are without affection.

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
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.
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Earth Nature Power Shine Sun Support Truth Wind
A wicked wife, a false friend, a saucy servant and living in a house with a serpent in it are nothing but death.
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Animal Death Fake Friendship Live Servant Wife
If a king is energetic, his subjects will be equally energetic.
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Affect Energy King Subject
Skills are called hidden treasure as they save like a mother in a foreign country.
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Country Foreign Hide Mom Save Skill Treasure
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.
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Beautiful Devotion Education Forgiveness Husband Person Song Ugly Woman
A low-minded person should not be given good advice.
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Advice Goodness Mindset Person Wasted Time
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
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
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
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
The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.
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Destroy Secret Share Yourself
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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Body Control Death Distance Health Save Soul Try Yourself
What good is a cow that neither gives milk nor conceives? Similarly, what is the value of the birth of a son if he becomes neither learned nor a pure devotee of the Lord?
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Cow Devotion God Goodness Learning Milk Son Value
Knowledge is lost without putting it into practice; a man is lost due to ignorance; an army is lost without a commander; and a woman is lost without a husband.
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Army Husband Ignorance Knowledge Leadership Lost Man Practice Woman
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

That man who is without religion and mercy should be rejected. A guru without spiritual knowledge should be rejected. The wife with an offensive face should be given up, and so should relatives who are without affection.

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That man who is without religion and mercy should be rejected. A guru without spiritual knowledge should be rejected. The wife with an offensive face should be given up, and so should relatives who are without affection.

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