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?
CHANAKYAHe who look at a woman who is not his wife as a mother; wealth that is not his as dust and all the men as himself… is a happy man. He, who sees all these things under a different light, is a blind.
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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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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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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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The king shall lose no time when the opportunity waited for arrives.
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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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The foolish wish to speak out what was spoken in secret by the master.
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Sinfully acquired wealth may remain for ten years; in the eleventh year it disappears with even the original stock.
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What good can the scriptures do to a man who has no sense of his own? Of what use is as mirror to a blind man?
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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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There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
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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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People’s Fury is above all the furies.
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Time perfects all living beings as well as kills them; it alone is awake when all others are asleep. Time is insurmountable.
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One who is in search of knowledge should give up the search of pleasure and the one who is in search of pleasure should give up the search of knowledge.
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A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
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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.
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Prosperity lasts long for one who acts after proper consideration.
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All types of riches should be amassed by all means.
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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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A wicked wife, a false friend, a saucy servant and living in a house with a serpent in it are nothing but death.
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God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.
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The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.
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A permanent relationship is dependent on particular purpose or wealth.
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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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Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
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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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