A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
CHANAKYAThose base men who speak of the secret faults of others destroy themselves like serpents that stray onto anthills.
More Chanakya Quotes
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Offspring, friends and relatives flee from a devotee of the Lord: yet those who follow him bring merit to their families through their devotion.
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The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
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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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What good is a cow that neither gives milk nor conceives? Similarly, what is the value of the birth of a son if he becomes neither learned nor a pure devotee of the Lord?
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This world is a bitter tree, it has only two sweet nectar like fruits – one is soft voice and the other is company of gentlemen.
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All types of riches should be amassed by all means.
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Accumulated wealth is saved by spending just as incoming fresh water is saved by letting out stagnant water.
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The learned are envied by the foolish; rich men by the poor; chaste women by adulteresses; and beautiful ladies by ugly ones.
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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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Prosperity lasts long for one who acts after proper consideration.
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Love is indicated by deeds. (and not by words)
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Time perfects men as well as destroys them.
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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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He who look at a woman who is not his wife as a mother; wealth that is not his as dust and all the men as himself… is a happy man. He, who sees all these things under a different light, is a blind.
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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.
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