The ruler should employ person in tasks according to their abilities because Knowers ( or the means ) and efficient employees make impossible tasks also possible.
CHANAKYAThe poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.
More Chanakya Quotes
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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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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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One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.
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A low-minded person should not be given good advice.
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The foolish wish to speak out what was spoken in secret by the master.
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An egoist can be won over by being respected, a crazy person can be won over by allowing him to behave in an insane manner and a wise person can be won over by truth.
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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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Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.
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Time perfects all living beings as well as kills them; it alone is awake when all others are asleep. Time is insurmountable.
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Wealth, a friend, a wife, and a kingdom may be regained; but this body when lost may never be acquired again.
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A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
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Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.
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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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A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
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Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
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