black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

A debt should be paid off till the last penny; An enemy should be destroyed without a trace.

Chanakya

He who has wealth has friends and relations; he alone survives and is respected as a man.
CHANAKYA

Alone Friendship Man Relationship Respect Survive Wealth
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.
CHANAKYA

Activity Charity Education Learning Religious Study
Do not keep company with a fool for as we can see he is a two-legged beast. Like an unseen thorn he pierces the heart with his sharp words.
CHANAKYA

Company Fools Heart Himself Pieces See Word
A thing may be dreaded as long as it has not overtaken you.
CHANAKYA

Control Deep Fear Yourself
Enemies strike at weak points.
CHANAKYA

Attack Enemy One Liner Weakness
He who runs away from a fearful calamity, a foreign invasion, a terrible famine, and the companionship of wicked men is safe.
CHANAKYA

Adversity Attack Company Fear Foreign Friendship Man Run Safety War
Love is indicated by deeds. (and not by words)
CHANAKYA

Action Love One Liner Word
The 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.
CHANAKYA

Beautiful Devotion Education Forgiveness Husband Person Song Ugly Woman
The forest fire burns even tree like sandalwood.
CHANAKYA

Burn Equality Fire Forest Tree
What good can the scriptures do to a man who has no sense of his own? Of what use is as mirror to a blind man?
CHANAKYA

Goodness Man Scripture Waste
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?
CHANAKYA

Cow Devotion God Goodness Learning Milk Son Value
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.
CHANAKYA

Beautiful Choice Equality Family Man Marriage Respect Status Wisdom
Do not put your trust in rivers, men who carry weapons, beasts with claws or horns, women, and members of a royal family.
CHANAKYA

Animal Carry Family Man River Royal Trust Weapon Woman
Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.
CHANAKYA

Dangerous Poison Pretend Safety
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.
CHANAKYA

Change Eat Food Medicine Poison Water
Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
CHANAKYA

Difficult Fortune Friendship Judgement Relationship Servant Service Trouble Wife

A debt should be paid off till the last penny; An enemy should be destroyed without a trace.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

A debt should be paid off till the last penny; An enemy should be destroyed without a trace.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Chanakya Quotes