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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.

Chanakya

A debt should be paid off till the last penny; An enemy should be destroyed without a trace.
CHANAKYA

Destroy Enemy Money Pay
The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.
CHANAKYA

Character Direction Flower Fragrance Goodness Person Wind
Even a captured enemy is not to be trusted.
CHANAKYA

Capture Enemy Prison Trust
A ruler wishing to win should not trust a captured enemy even if he may be extending had to be friend. Because deep rooted enmity, however, concealed, will surely come to light.
CHANAKYA

Capture Deep Enemy Friendship King Light Prison Rule Trust Win
Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
CHANAKYA

Difficult Fortune Friendship Judgement Relationship Servant Service Trouble Wife
We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.
CHANAKYA

Deal Future Man Moments Past Present
Time perfects all living beings as well as kills them; it alone is awake when all others are asleep. Time is insurmountable.
CHANAKYA

Alone Kill Perfection Sleep Time
They (low-minded) ones should never be trusted.
CHANAKYA

Betrayal Mindset Trust
The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.
CHANAKYA

Action Animal Effort Excellence Heart Learning Man
Considersing the forebearance of a person, Do not harass him.
CHANAKYA

Abuse Compassionate Justice Person
Women have hunger two-fold, shyness four-fold, daring six-fold, and lust eight-fold as compared to men.
CHANAKYA

Comparison Dare Lust Man Shy 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
Offspring, friends and relatives flee from a devotee of the Lord: yet those who follow him bring merit to their families through their devotion.
CHANAKYA

Devotion Family Friendship God Relative Respect
Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.
CHANAKYA

Dangerous Poison Pretend Safety
Sinfully acquired wealth may remain for ten years; in the eleventh year it disappears with even the original stock.
CHANAKYA

Disappear Original Sin Time Wealth
The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.
CHANAKYA

Animal God Heaven Liberty Man Person Wealth

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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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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