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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.

Chanakya

A thing may be dreaded as long as it has not overtaken you.
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Control Deep Fear Yourself
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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Question Reason Satisfaction Start Success Thinking Work Yourself
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
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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Cleaning Flow Metal River Woman
Till the enemy’s weakness is known , he should be kept on friendly terms.
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Enemy Friendship Himself Weakness
We should always speak what would please the man of whom we expect a favor, like the hunter who sings sweetly when he desires to shoot a deer.
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Animal Desire Expectation Hunt Kill Man Shoot Sing Talk
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
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Company Friendship Truth
Sinfully acquired wealth may remain for ten years; in the eleventh year it disappears with even the original stock.
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Disappear Original Sin Time Wealth
The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.
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Action Animal Effort Excellence Heart Learning Man
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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Goodness Himself Husband Love Marriage Mom Morning Night Service Sex Wife
Women have hunger two-fold, shyness four-fold, daring six-fold, and lust eight-fold as compared to men.
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Comparison Dare Lust Man Shy Woman
Don’t judge the future of a person based on his present conditions, because time has the power to change black coal to shiny diamond.
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Change Inspirational Judgement Patience Person Power Present Time Transformation
One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.
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Book Knowledge Need Time Wealth
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
Prosperity lasts long for one who acts after proper consideration.
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Act Prosperity Responsibility Thinking
Although an ass is tired, he continues to carry his burden; he is unmindful of cold and heat; and he is always contented; these three things should be learned from the ass.
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Animal Burden Carry Cold Learning Mindset Satisfaction

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