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Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.

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Evil person causes harm even if treated well.
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Evil Harm Person Treat
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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Body Death Friendship King Lost Wealth Wife
Prosperity lasts long for one who acts after proper consideration.
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Act Prosperity Responsibility Thinking
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
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
He who gives up shyness in monetary dealings, in acquiring knowledge, in eating and in business, becomes happy.
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Business Deal Eat Give Up Happiness Knowledge Money Shy
Even a captured enemy is not to be trusted.
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Capture Enemy Prison Trust
A low-minded person should not be given good advice.
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Advice Goodness Mindset Person Wasted Time
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
Our bodies are perishable, wealth is not at all permanent and death is always nearby. Therefore we must immediately engage in acts of merit.
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Act Body Death Engagement Ourselves Wealth Wisdom
He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.
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Attachment Deep Experience Family Fear Grief Happiness Oneself Sorrow Wisdom
Learning 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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Death Friendship Home Journey Learning Medicine Religious Sick Wife
She is a true wife who is clean (suci), expert, chaste, pleasing to the husband, and truthful.
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Love is indicated by deeds. (and not by words)
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As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?
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If a king is energetic, his subjects will be equally energetic.
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Affect Energy King Subject

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