A low-minded person should not be given good advice.
CHANAKYADo 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.
More Chanakya Quotes
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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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Let not a single day pass without your learning a verse, half a verse, or a fourth of it, or even one letter of it; nor without attending to charity, study and other pious activity.
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The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
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The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
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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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The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.
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Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.
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When one is consumed by the sorrows of life, three things give him relief: offspring, a wife, and the company of the Lord’s devotees.
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A man attains greatness by his merits, not simply by occupying an exalted seat. Can we call a crow an eagle simply because he sits on the top of a tall building?
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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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He who gives up shyness in monetary dealings, in acquiring knowledge, in eating and in business, becomes happy.
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There is no disease so destructive as lust.
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The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.
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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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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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