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.
CHANAKYAA 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.
CHANAKYAThe learned are envied by the foolish; rich men by the poor; chaste women by adulteresses; and beautiful ladies by ugly ones.
CHANAKYAMy dear child, if you desire to be free from the cycle of birth and death, then abandon the objects of sense gratification as poison. Drink instead the nectar of forbearance, upright conduct, mercy, cleanliness and truth.
CHANAKYAA 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.
CHANAKYADon’t judge the future of a person based on his present conditions, because time has the power to change black coal to shiny diamond.
CHANAKYAIt 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.
CHANAKYAA thing may be dreaded as long as it has not overtaken you.
CHANAKYAHe who has wealth has friends and relations; he alone survives and is respected as a man.
CHANAKYAThe wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
CHANAKYAThe world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
CHANAKYAAs 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?
CHANAKYATest a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
CHANAKYAHe 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.
CHANAKYAWomen have hunger two-fold, shyness four-fold, daring six-fold, and lust eight-fold as compared to men.
CHANAKYAAll types of riches should be amassed by all means.
CHANAKYAThe 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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