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Chanakya

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Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourselves.
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Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourselves.
Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
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Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
The biggest Guru mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.
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The biggest Guru mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourselves!
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Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourselves!
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.
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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.
God doesn't dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.
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God doesn't dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.
The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.
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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 directions.
A father who is a chronic debtor, an adulterous mother, a beautiful wife, and an unlearned son are enemies in one’s own home.
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A father who is a chronic debtor, an adulterous mother, a beautiful wife, and an unlearned son are enemies in one’s own home.
He whose son is obedient to him, whose wife’s conduct is in accordance with his wishes, and who is content with his riches, has his heaven here on earth.
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He whose son is obedient to him, whose wife’s conduct is in accordance with his wishes, and who is content with his riches, has his heaven here on earth.
Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one’s own sins.
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Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one’s own sins.
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