Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.
He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.
The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
Wealth, a friend, a wife, and a kingdom may be regained; but this body when lost may never be acquired again.
Union in privacy (with one's wife); boldness; storing away useful items; watchfulness; and not easily trusting others; these five things are to be learned from a crow.
The foolish wish to speak out what was spoken in secret by the master.
The learned are envied by the foolish; rich men by the poor; chaste women by adulteresses; and beautiful ladies by ugly ones.
A low-minded person should not be given good advice.
He who runs away from a fearful calamity, a foreign invasion, a terrible famine, and the companionship of wicked men is safe.
He who gives up shyness in monetary dealings, in acquiring knowledge, in eating and in business, becomes happy.
An egoist can be won over by being respected, a crazy person can be won over by allowing him to behave in an insane manner and a wise person can be won over by truth.
The man who remains a fool even in advanced age is really a fool, just as the Indra-Varuna fruit does not become sweet no matter how ripe it might become.
He who look at a woman who is not his wife as a mother; wealth that is not his as dust and all the men as himself... is a happy man. He, who sees all these things under a different light, is a blind.
He who has wealth has friends and relations; he alone survives and is respected as a man.
One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.
Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others destroy themselves like serpents that stray onto anthills.
The fire of the forest burns trees to ashes. Even expensive sandalwood tree which is endowed with qualities of cooling and fragrance, cannot escape from burning. In the same way wicked cause harm to their benefactors also.
If one limb of the body is defected or inflicted with, disease, the whole feels tha pai. 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.
Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear.
Knower of the means makes impossible tasks also possible.
A permanent relationship is dependent on particular purpose or wealth.
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?
He shall despise none, but hear the opinions of all. A wise man shall make use of even a child's sensible utterance.
The king shall lose no time when the opportunity waited for arrives.
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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