Time perfects all living beings as well as kills them; it alone is awake when all others are asleep. Time is insurmountable.
CHANAKYAThe life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.
More Chanakya Quotes
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Women have hunger two-fold, shyness four-fold, daring six-fold, and lust eight-fold as compared to men.
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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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One’s weakness should not ever be revealed.
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A low-minded person should not be given good advice.
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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.
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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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How well you treat the wicked people, they don’t give up their wickedness. They derive pleasure in hurting others. A serpent made to drink milk, it ejects poison only.
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Brass is polished by ashes; copper is cleaned by tamarind; a woman, by her menses; and a river by its flow.
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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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Even a captured enemy is not to be trusted.
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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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The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
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One who is in search of knowledge should give up the search of pleasure and the one who is in search of pleasure should give up the search of knowledge.
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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?
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Offspring, friends and relatives flee from a devotee of the Lord: yet those who follow him bring merit to their families through their devotion.
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