As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.
CHANAKYA
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.
More Chanakya Quotes
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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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He who has wealth has friends.
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There is no disease so destructive as lust.
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There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
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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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As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?
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They (low-minded) ones should never be trusted.
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It is better to live under a tree in a jungle inhabited by tigers and elephants, to maintain oneself in such a place with ripe fruits and spring water, to lie down on grass and to wear the ragged barks of trees than to live amongst one’s relations when reduced to poverty.
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Time perfects men as well as destroys them.
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The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
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There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.
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The foolish wish to speak out what was spoken in secret by the master.
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Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one’s own sins.
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A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
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Considersing the forebearance of a person, Do not harass him.
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Learning is a friend on the journey; a wife in the house; medicine in sickness; and religious merit is the only friend after death.
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