Learning is a friend on the journey; a wife in the house; medicine in sickness; and religious merit is the only friend after death.
CHANAKYAThe biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.
More Chanakya Quotes
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There is no disease so destructive as lust.
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A thing may be dreaded as long as it has not overtaken you.
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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 earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.
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As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.
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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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He who has wealth has friends and relations; he alone survives and is respected as a man.
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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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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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A ruler wishing to win should not trust a captured enemy even if he may be extending had to be friend. Because deep rooted enmity, however, concealed, will surely come to light.
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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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Whores don’t live in company of poor men, citizens never support a weak company and birds don’t build nests on a tree that doesn’t bear fruits.
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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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He who wears unclean garments, has dirty teeth, is a glutton, speaks unkindly and sleeps after sunrise – although he may be the greatest personality – will lose the favour of Lakshmi.
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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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