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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.
ChanakyaChanakya Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
ChanakyaChanakya Although an ass is tired, he continues to carry his burden; he is unmindful of cold and heat; and he is always contented; these three things should be learned from the ass.
ChanakyaChanakya If a king is energetic, his subjects will be equally energetic.
ChanakyaChanakya Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one’s own sins.
ChanakyaChanakya A friend, even if he be the enemy’s son , should be protected.
ChanakyaChanakya Time perfects all living beings as well as kills them; it alone is awake when all others are asleep. Time is insurmountable.
ChanakyaChanakya How well you treat the wicked people, they don’t give up their wickedness. They derive pleasure in hurting others. A serpent made to drink milk, it ejects poison only.
ChanakyaChanakya That man who is without religion and mercy should be rejected. A guru without spiritual knowledge should be rejected. The wife with an offensive face should be given up, and so should relatives who are without affection.
ChanakyaChanakya Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.
ChanakyaChanakya Your feelings are your god.
ChanakyaChanakya The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.
ChanakyaChanakya A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
ChanakyaChanakya All types of riches should be amassed by all means.
ChanakyaChanakya One who is in search of knowledge should give up the search of pleasure and the one who is in search of pleasure should give up the search of knowledge.
ChanakyaChanakya Skills are called hidden treasure as they save like a mother in a foreign country.
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