Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one’s own sins.
CHANAKYAA ruler wishing to win should not trust a captured enemy even if he may be extending had to be friend. Because deep rooted enmity, however, concealed, will surely come to light.
More Chanakya Quotes
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Don’t judge the future of a person based on his present conditions, because time has the power to change black coal to shiny diamond.
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A thing may be dreaded as long as it has not overtaken you.
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Enemies strike at weak points.
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Do not put your trust in rivers, men who carry weapons, beasts with claws or horns, women, and members of a royal family.
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Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
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Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher of poison with milk on top.
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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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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?
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The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.
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A low-minded person should not be given good advice.
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Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
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Your feelings are your god.
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There are three gems upon this earth; food, water, and pleasing words – fools consider pieces of rocks as gems.
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The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.
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Do not put your trust in a bad companion nor even trust an ordinary friend, for if he should get angry with you, he may bring all your secrets to light.
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Whores don’t live in company of poor men, citizens never support a weak company and birds don’t build nests on a tree that doesn’t bear fruits.
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Beauty is spoiled by an immoral nature; noble birth by bad conduct; learning, without being perfected; and wealth by not being properly utilised.
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We should always speak what would please the man of whom we expect a favor, like the hunter who sings sweetly when he desires to shoot a deer.
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Time perfects men as well as destroys them.
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God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.
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A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
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A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.
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A wise man should marry a virgin of a respectable family even if she is deformed. He should not marry one of a low-class family, through beauty. Marriage in a family of equal status is preferable.
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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.
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Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
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A wicked wife, a false friend, a saucy servant and living in a house with a serpent in it are nothing but death.
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