The foolish wish to speak out what was spoken in secret by the master.
CHANAKYATime perfects all living beings as well as kills them; it alone is awake when all others are asleep. Time is insurmountable.
More Chanakya Quotes
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Beauty is spoiled by an immoral nature; noble birth by bad conduct; learning, without being perfected; and wealth by not being properly utilised.
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Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
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Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.
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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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Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.
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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?
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There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.
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Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear.
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Skills are called hidden treasure as they save like a mother in a foreign country.
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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 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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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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The 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.
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Sinfully acquired wealth may remain for ten years; in the eleventh year it disappears with even the original stock.
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When one is consumed by the sorrows of life, three things give him relief: offspring, a wife, and the company of the Lord’s devotees.
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