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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

What good is a cow that neither gives milk nor conceives? Similarly, what is the value of the birth of a son if he becomes neither learned nor a pure devotee of the Lord?
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Cow Devotion God Goodness Learning Milk Son Value
Do not put your trust in rivers, men who carry weapons, beasts with claws or horns, women, and members of a royal family.
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Animal Carry Family Man River Royal Trust Weapon Woman
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.
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Action Animal Effort Excellence Heart Learning Man
Even a captured enemy is not to be trusted.
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Capture Enemy Prison Trust
She is a true wife who is clean (suci), expert, chaste, pleasing to the husband, and truthful.
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Beautiful Husband Truth Wife
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
A learned man is honored by the people. A learned man commands respect everywhere for his learning. Indeed, learning is honored everywhere.
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Education Honor Learning Man People Respect Worth
As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.
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Attack Courage Destroy Fear Fight
The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
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Beautiful Big Power Woman World Youth
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.
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Capture Deep Enemy Friendship King Light Prison Rule Trust Win
A low-minded person should not be given good advice.
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Advice Goodness Mindset Person Wasted Time
Water is the medicine for indigestion; it is invigorating when the food that is eaten is well digested; it is like nectar when drunk in the middle of a dinner; and it is like poison when taken at the end of a meal.
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Change Eat Food Medicine Poison Water
One’s weakness should not ever be revealed.
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Oneself Reveal Weakness
Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.
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Action Carry Determination Execution Reveal Secret Thinking Wisdom
He who runs away from a fearful calamity, a foreign invasion, a terrible famine, and the companionship of wicked men is safe.
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Adversity Attack Company Fear Foreign Friendship Man Run Safety War
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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Earth Nature Power Shine Sun Support Truth Wind

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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