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Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others destroy themselves like serpents that stray onto anthills.

Chanakya

If a king is energetic, his subjects will be equally energetic.
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Affect Energy King Subject
The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.
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Bite Dog Education End Life Man Protection
One’s weakness should not ever be revealed.
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Oneself Reveal Weakness
A wicked wife, a false friend, a saucy servant and living in a house with a serpent in it are nothing but death.
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Animal Death Fake Friendship Live Servant 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?
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Body Control Death Distance Health Save Soul Try Yourself
When one is consumed by the sorrows of life, three things give him relief: offspring, a wife, and the company of the Lord’s devotees.
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Children Company Consumption Devotion God Hard Time Life Oneself relief Sorrow Wife
Whores don’t live in company of poor men, citizens never support a weak company and birds don’t build nests on a tree that doesn’t bear fruits.
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Build Citizenship Company Fruit Live Man Poor Support Weakness
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
Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others destroy themselves like serpents that stray onto anthills.
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Lost Man Mistake Secret Talk
Even a captured enemy is not to be trusted.
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Capture Enemy Prison Trust
There is no disease so destructive as lust.
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Dangerous Destruction Lust Moral One Liner Sick
If one limb of the body is defected or inflicted with, disease, the whole feels that pain. Some way if any department, minister or official of the state is faulty, the whole country is effected. An administrator should try hard to curb it.
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Affect Body Corruption Country Feeling Hard Oneself Pain Sick Try
Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
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Friendship Happiness People Yourself
Enemies strike at weak points.
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Attack Enemy One Liner Weakness
A friend, even if he be the enemy’s son , should be protected.
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Enemy Friendship Protection Son
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

Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others destroy themselves like serpents that stray onto anthills.

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