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Knowledge is lost without putting it into practice a man is lost due to ignorance an army is lost without a commander and a woman is lost without a husband.
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A learned man is honoured by the people.A learned man commands respect everywhere for his learning. Indeed, learning is honoured everywhere.
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Eschew wicked company and associate with saintly persons. Acquire virtue day and night, and always meditate on that which is eternal forgetting that which is temporary.
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As a calf follows its mother among a thousand cows, so the (good or bad) deeds of a man follow him.
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Skills are called hidden treasure as they save like a mother in a foreign country.
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If the bees which seek the liquid oozing from the head of a lust-intoxicated elephant are driven away by the flapping of his ears, then the elephant has lost only the ornament of his head. The bees are quite happy in the lotus filled lake.
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As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.
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Defect in one's limb ruins a man.
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Even as the unborn babe is in the womb of his mother, these five are fixed as his life destiny: his life span, his activities, his acquisition of wealth and knowledge, and his time of death.
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He who has wealth has friends.
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Sinfully acquired wealth may remain for ten years in the eleventh year it disappears with even the original stock.
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He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.
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