A thing may be dreaded as long as it has not overtaken you.
CHANAKYAIf a king is energetic, his subjects will be equally energetic.
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She is a true wife who is clean (suci), expert, chaste, pleasing to the husband, and truthful.
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Skills are called hidden treasure as they save like a mother in a foreign country.
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Wealth, a friend, a wife, and a kingdom may be regained; but this body when lost may never be acquired again.
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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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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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Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one’s own sins.
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Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear.
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A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
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A man attains greatness by his merits, not simply by occupying an exalted seat. Can we call a crow an eagle simply because he sits on the top of a tall building?
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It is better to live under a tree in a jungle inhabited by tigers and elephants, to maintain oneself in such a place with ripe fruits and spring water, to lie down on grass and to wear the ragged barks of trees than to live amongst one’s relations when reduced to poverty.
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Enemies strike at weak points.
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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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If a king is energetic, his subjects will be equally energetic.
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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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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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