Sinfully acquired wealth may remain for ten years; in the eleventh year it disappears with even the original stock.
CHANAKYABooks are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
More Chanakya Quotes
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If one limb of the body is defected or inflicted with, disease, the whole feels that pain. Some way if any department, minister or official of the state is faulty, the whole country is effected. An administrator should try hard to curb it.
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The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.
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Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.
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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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Evil person causes harm even if treated well.
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Skills are called hidden treasure as they save like a mother in a foreign country.
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He who runs away from a fearful calamity, a foreign invasion, a terrible famine, and the companionship of wicked men is safe.
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It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.
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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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Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.
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As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.
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People’s Fury is above all the furies.
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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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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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A friend, even if he be the enemy’s son , should be protected.
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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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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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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 born blind cannot see; similarly blind are those in the grip of lust. Proud men have no perception of evil; and those bent on acquiring riches see no sin in their actions.
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The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.
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Water is the medicine for indigestion; it is invigorating when the food that is eaten is well digested; it is like nectar when drunk in the middle of a dinner; and it is like poison when taken at the end of a meal.
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One’s weakness should not ever be revealed.
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Time perfects men as well as destroys them.
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My 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.
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The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.
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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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