Chanakya Neethi Part 3/17..

1. In this world, whose family is there without blemish? Who is free from
  sickness and grief? Who is forever happy?
2. A man's descent may be discerned by - his conduct, his country by his
  pronunciation of language, his friendship by his warmth and glow, and
 his capacity to eat by his body.
3. Give your daughter in marriage to a good family, engage your son in
  learning, see that your enemy comes to grief, and engage your friends
 in dharma. (Krsna consciousness).
4. Of a rascal and a serpent, the serpent is the better of the two, for he
  strikes only at the time he is destined to kill, while the former at every
 step.
5. Therefore kings gather round themselves men of good families, for they
  never forsake them either at the beginning, the middle or the end.
6. At the time of the pralaya (universal destruction) the oceans are to
  exceed their limits and seek to change, but a saintly man never changes.
7. Do not keep company with a fool for as we can see he is a two-legged
  beast. Like an unseen thorn he pierces the heart with his sharp words.
8. Though men be endowed with beauty and youth and born in noble
  families, yet without education they are like the palasa flower which is
 void of sweet fragrance.
9. The beauty of a cuckoo is in its notes, that of a woman in her unalloyed
  devotion to her husband, that of an ugly person in his scholarship, and
 that of an ascetic in his forgiveness.
10. Give up a member to save a family, a family to save a village, a village
to save a country, and the country to save yourself.
11. There is no poverty for the industrious. Sin does not attach itself to the
person practicing japa (chanting of the holy names of the Lord). Those
who are absorbed in maunam (silent contemplation of the Lord) have
no quarrel with others. They are fearless who remain always alert.
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13. What is too heavy for the strong and what place is too distant for those
who put forth effort? What country is foreign to a man of true learning?
Who can be inimical to one who speaks pleasingly?
14. As a whole forest becomes fragrant by the existence of a single tree
with sweet-smelling blossoms in it, so a family becomes famous by the
birth of a virtuous son.
15. As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so
does a rascal son destroy a whole family.
16. As night looks delightful when the moon shines, so is a family
gladdened by even one learned and virtuous son.
17. What is the use of having many sons if they cause grief and vexation? It
is better to have only one son from whom the whole family can derive
support and peacefulness.
18. Fondle a son until he is five years of age, and use the stick for another
ten years, but when he has attained his sixteenth year treat him as a
friend.
19. He who runs away from a fearful calamity, a foreign invasion, a terrible
famine, and the companionship of wicked men is safe.
20 He who has not acquired one of the following: religious merit
(dharma), wealth (artha), satisfaction of desires (kama), or liberation
(moksa) is repeatedly born to die.
21. Lakshmi, the Goddess of wealth, comes of Her own accord where fools
are not respected, grain is well stored up, and the husband and wife do
not quarrel.