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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.

Chanakya

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.
CHANAKYA

Book Knowledge Need Time Wealth
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.
CHANAKYA

Born Consumption Fire Fools Grief Life Moments Parents Son
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.
CHANAKYA

Goodness Himself Husband Love Marriage Mom Morning Night Service Sex Wife
Those born blind cannot see; similarly blind are those in the grip of lust. Proud men have no perception of evil; and those bent on acquiring riches see no sin in their actions.
CHANAKYA

Action Born Control Evil Lust Man Proud Rich See Sin
Brass is polished by ashes; copper is cleaned by tamarind; a woman, by her menses; and a river by its flow.
CHANAKYA

Cleaning Flow Metal River Woman
A learned man is honored by the people. A learned man commands respect everywhere for his learning. Indeed, learning is honored everywhere.
CHANAKYA

Education Honor Learning Man People Respect Worth
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

Affection Appearance Face Family Give Up Knowledge Man Mercy Rejection Relative Religion Spiritual Wife
Union in privacy (with one’s wife); boldness; storing away useful items; watchfulness; and not easily trusting others; these five things are to be learned from a crow.
CHANAKYA

Animal Bold Easy Learning Privacy Sex Store Trust Unity
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.
CHANAKYA

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.
CHANAKYA

Act Body Death Engagement Ourselves Wealth Wisdom
Skills are called hidden treasure as they save like a mother in a foreign country.
CHANAKYA

Country Foreign Hide Mom Save Skill Treasure
Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
CHANAKYA

Friendship Happiness People Yourself
How well you treat the wicked people, they don’t give up their wickedness. They derive pleasure in hurting others. A serpent made to drink milk, it ejects poison only.
CHANAKYA

Character Drink Give Up Happiness Hurt People Poison
Women have hunger two-fold, shyness four-fold, daring six-fold, and lust eight-fold as compared to men.
CHANAKYA

Comparison Dare Lust Man Shy Woman
My dear child, if you desire to be free from the cycle of birth and death, then abandon the objects of sense gratification as poison. Drink instead the nectar of forbearance, upright conduct, mercy, cleanliness and truth.
CHANAKYA

Abandonment Born Children Clean Death Desire Freedom Gratitude Mercy Truth
A low-minded person should not be given good advice.
CHANAKYA

Advice Goodness Mindset Person Wasted Time

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