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The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.

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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
A thing may be dreaded as long as it has not overtaken you.
CHANAKYA

Control Deep Fear Yourself
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.
CHANAKYA

Abandonment Born Children Clean Death Desire Freedom Gratitude Mercy Truth
Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
CHANAKYA

Abandonment Afraid Failure Happiness People Sincere Start Work
The foolish wish to speak out what was spoken in secret by the master.
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Fools Master Secret Stupidity Talk
A low-minded person should not be given good advice.
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Advice Goodness Mindset Person Wasted Time
The ruler should employ person in tasks according to their abilities because Knowers ( or the means ) and efficient employees make impossible tasks also possible.
CHANAKYA

Ability Determination Employment Impossible King Possible Rule
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
Prosperity lasts long for one who acts after proper consideration.
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Act Prosperity Responsibility Thinking
A person becomes great not be sitting on some high seat, but through higher qualities. Can a crow become an eagle by simply sitting on the top of a palatial building?
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Animal Greatness Person Quality Simplicity Standard
If a king is energetic, his subjects will be equally energetic.
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Affect Energy King Subject
Skills are called hidden treasure as they save like a mother in a foreign country.
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Country Foreign Hide Mom Save Skill Treasure
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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Goodness Man Scripture Waste
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.
CHANAKYA

Animal Bold Easy Learning Privacy Sex Store Trust Unity
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.
CHANAKYA

Army Husband Ignorance Knowledge Leadership Lost Man Practice Woman
A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
CHANAKYA

Action Born Greatness Man

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.

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