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Chanakya - 350 BC
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Separation from the wife, disgrace from one's own people, an enemy saved in battle, service to a wicked king, poverty, and a mismanaged assembly: these six kinds of evils, if afflicting a person, burn him even without fire.

Generosity, pleasing address, courage and propriety of conduct are not acquired, but are inbred qualities.

He whose hands are clean does not like to hold an office; he who desires nothing cares not for bodily decorations; he who is only partially educated cannot speak agreeably; and he who speaks out plainly cannot be a deceiver.

Kings speak for once, men of learning once, and the daughter is given in marriage once. All these things happen once and only once.

I do not deserve that wealth which is to be attained by enduring much suffering, or by transgressing the rules of virtue, or by flattering an enemy.

Brass is polished by ashes; copper is cleaned by tamarind; a woman, by her menses; and a river by its flow.

For one whose heart melts with compassion for all creatures; what is the necessity of knowledge, liberation, matted hair on the head, and smearing the body with ashes.

Wealth, a friend, a wife, and a kingdom may be regained; but this body when lost may never be acquired again.

He who is engrossed in family life will never acquire knowledge; there can be no mercy in the eater of flesh; the greedy man will not be truthful; and purity will not be found in a woman a hunter.

A woman does not become holy by offering by charity, by observing hundreds of fasts, or by sipping sacred water, as by sipping the water used to wash her husbands feet.

Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one's own sins.

He is a pandit (man of knowledge) who speaks what is suitable to the occasion, who renders loving service according to his ability, and who knows the limits of his anger.

We should secure and keep the following: the blessings of meritorious deeds, wealth, grain, the words of the spiritual master, and rare medicines. Otherwise life becomes impossible.

It is ruinous to be familiar with the king, fire, the religious preceptor, and a woman. To be altogether indifferent of them is to be deprived of the opportunity to benefit ourselves, hence our association with them must be from a safe distance.

The hearts of base men burn before the fire of other's fame, and they slander them being themselves unable to rise to such a high position.

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