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.
CHANAKYAIf a king is energetic, his subjects will be equally energetic.
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Prosperity lasts long for one who acts after proper consideration.
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All types of riches should be amassed by all means.
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What vice could be worse than covetousness? What is more sinful than slander? For one who is truthful, what need is there for austerity? For one who has a clean heart, what is the need for pilgrimage?
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Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
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If a king is energetic, his subjects will be equally energetic.
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A thing may be dreaded as long as it has not overtaken you.
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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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The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.
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Brass is polished by ashes; copper is cleaned by tamarind; a woman, by her menses; and a river by its flow.
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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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A person becomes great not be sitting on some high seat, but through higher qualities. Can a crow become an eagle by simply sitting on the top of a palatial building?
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The foolish wish to speak out what was spoken in secret by the master.
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We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.
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The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
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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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