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Let not a single day pass without your learning a verse, half a verse, or a fourth of it, or even one letter of it; nor without attending to charity, study and other pious activity.

Chanakya

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.
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Animal Bold Easy Learning Privacy Sex Store Trust Unity
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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Adult Beautiful Fools Jealous Learning Ugly Woman
The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.
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Animal God Heaven Liberty Man Person Wealth
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
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.
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Abandonment Born Children Clean Death Desire Freedom Gratitude Mercy Truth
The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
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Beautiful Big Power Woman World Youth
Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
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Books Person Stupidity Waste
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
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.
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Character Drink Give Up Happiness Hurt People Poison
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.
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Action Born Control Evil Lust Man Proud Rich See Sin
As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.
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Burn Destroy Family Flame Tree
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
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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Earth Nature Power Shine Sun Support Truth Wind
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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Difficult Fortune Friendship Judgement Relationship Servant Service Trouble Wife
Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others destroy themselves like serpents that stray onto anthills.
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Lost Man Mistake Secret Talk
What good is a cow that neither gives milk nor conceives? Similarly, what is the value of the birth of a son if he becomes neither learned nor a pure devotee of the Lord?
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Cow Devotion God Goodness Learning Milk Son Value

Let not a single day pass without your learning a verse, half a verse, or a fourth of it, or even one letter of it; nor without attending to charity, study and other pious activity.

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Let not a single day pass without your learning a verse, half a verse, or a fourth of it, or even one letter of it; nor without attending to charity, study and other pious activity.

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