Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
CHANAKYAUnion in privacy (with one’s wife); boldness; storing away useful items; watchfulness; and not easily trusting others; these five things are to be learned from a crow.
More Chanakya Quotes
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Don’t judge the future of a person based on his present conditions, because time has the power to change black coal to shiny diamond.
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For good days one should save money, women should be protected even if it takes the money saved. But for self preservation the money and the women should be sacrificed!!
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All types of riches should be amassed by all means.
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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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He who has wealth has friends.
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Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.
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If a king is energetic, his subjects will be equally energetic.
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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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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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The foolish wish to speak out what was spoken in secret by the master.
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A debt should be paid off till the last penny; An enemy should be destroyed without a trace.
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There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
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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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We should always speak what would please the man of whom we expect a favor, like the hunter who sings sweetly when he desires to shoot a deer.
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Skills are called hidden treasure as they save like a mother in a foreign country.
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