Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
CHANAKYA
What vice could be worse than covetousness? What is more sinful than slander? For one who is truthful, what need is there for austerity? For one who has a clean heart, what is the need for pilgrimage?
More Chanakya Quotes
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Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
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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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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.
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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.
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Time perfects men as well as destroys them.
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What good can the scriptures do to a man who has no sense of his own? Of what use is as mirror to a blind man?
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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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There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
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A still-born son is superior to a foolish son endowed with a long life. The first causes grief for but a moment while the latter like a blazing fire consumes his parents in grief for life.
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Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others destroy themselves like serpents that stray onto anthills.
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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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The foolish wish to speak out what was spoken in secret by the master.
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A thing may be dreaded as long as it has not overtaken you.
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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 debt should be paid off till the last penny; An enemy should be destroyed without a trace.
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