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She is a true wife who is clean (suci), expert, chaste, pleasing to the husband, and truthful.

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
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
For good days one should save money, women should be protected even if it takes the money saved. But for self preservation the money and the women should be sacrificed!!
CHANAKYA

Day Goodness Money Preserve Protection Sacrifice Save Woman
A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.
CHANAKYA

Alone Born Death Experience Goodness Hell Heaven Karma Man Result
God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.
CHANAKYA

Belief Feeling God Idol Present Soul Temple Yourself
The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
CHANAKYA

Beautiful Big Power Woman World Youth
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?
CHANAKYA

Deep Heart Need Oneself Philosophy Sin Truth Vice Wisdom Worst
Even a captured enemy is not to be trusted.
CHANAKYA

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

Break Fools Fruit Person Stupidity Tree Virtual
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
Religion is preserved by wealth; knowledge by diligent practice; a king by conciliatory words; and a home by a dutiful housewife.
CHANAKYA

Home King Knowledge Practice Preserve Religion Wealth Wife Word
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
CHANAKYA

Company Friendship Truth
Learning is a friend on the journey; a wife in the house; medicine in sickness; and religious merit is the only friend after death.
CHANAKYA

Death Friendship Home Journey Learning Medicine Religious Sick Wife
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?
CHANAKYA

Body Control Death Distance Health Save Soul Try Yourself
Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear.
CHANAKYA

Charity End Fear Ignorance Poor Poverty
As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.
CHANAKYA

Burn Destroy Family Flame Tree

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