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Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Chanakya

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
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
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
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
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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Deep Heart Need Oneself Philosophy Sin Truth Vice Wisdom Worst
Religion is preserved by wealth; knowledge by diligent practice; a king by conciliatory words; and a home by a dutiful housewife.
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Home King Knowledge Practice Preserve Religion Wealth Wife Word
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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Compassionate Divine Heart Mindset Need Purity Rise Talk
A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
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Harm Honesty People Person Tree Trouble
A friend, even if he be the enemy’s son , should be protected.
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Enemy Friendship Protection Son
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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Body Death Friendship King Lost Wealth Wife
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
Your feelings are your god.
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Feeling God One Liner Yourself
Whores don’t live in company of poor men, citizens never support a weak company and birds don’t build nests on a tree that doesn’t bear fruits.
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Build Citizenship Company Fruit Live Man Poor Support Weakness
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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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
This world is a bitter tree, it has only two sweet nectar like fruits – one is soft voice and the other is company of gentlemen.
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Bitter Company Fruit Man Place World

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