A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
CHANAKYALearning is a friend on the journey; a wife in the house; medicine in sickness; and religious merit is the only friend after death.
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Low class men desire wealth;middle class men both wealth and respect; but the noble, honour only; hence honour is the noble man’s true wealth.
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People’s Fury is above all the furies.
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There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
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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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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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She is a true wife who is clean (suci), expert, chaste, pleasing to the husband, and truthful.
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The foolish wish to speak out what was spoken in secret by the master.
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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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Considersing the forebearance of a person, Do not harass him.
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Time perfects men as well as destroys them.
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He who has wealth has friends and relations; he alone survives and is respected as a man.
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Till the enemy’s weakness is known , he should be kept on friendly terms.
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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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The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.
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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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