As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?
CHANAKYAWe 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.
More Chanakya Quotes
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The ruler should employ person in tasks according to their abilities because Knowers ( or the means ) and efficient employees make impossible tasks also possible.
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The forest fire burns even tree like sandalwood.
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People’s Fury is above all the furies.
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Skills are called hidden treasure as they save like a mother in a foreign country.
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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 low-minded person should not be given good advice.
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They (low-minded) ones should never be trusted.
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He who look at a woman who is not his wife as a mother; wealth that is not his as dust and all the men as himself… is a happy man. He, who sees all these things under a different light, is a blind.
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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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Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others destroy themselves like serpents that stray onto anthills.
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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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Time perfects men as well as destroys them.
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The learned are envied by the foolish; rich men by the poor; chaste women by adulteresses; and beautiful ladies by ugly ones.
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Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one’s own sins.
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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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