Wealth, a friend, a wife, and a kingdom may be regained; but this body when lost may never be acquired again.
CHANAKYAA learned man is honored by the people. A learned man commands respect everywhere for his learning. Indeed, learning is honored everywhere.
More Chanakya Quotes
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Enemies strike at weak points.
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There are three gems upon this earth; food, water, and pleasing words – fools consider pieces of rocks as gems.
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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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Our bodies are perishable, wealth is not at all permanent and death is always nearby. Therefore we must immediately engage in acts of merit.
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A low-minded person should not be given good advice.
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There is no disease so destructive as lust.
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Knowledge is lost without putting it into practice; a man is lost due to ignorance; an army is lost without a commander; and a woman is lost without a husband.
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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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A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
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A person becomes great not be sitting on some high seat, but through higher qualities. Can a crow become an eagle by simply sitting on the top of a palatial building?
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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 man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.
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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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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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Lakshmi, the Goddess of wealth, comes of Her own accord where fools are not respected, grain is well stored up, and the husband and wife do not quarrel.
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