Sinfully acquired wealth may remain for ten years; in the eleventh year it disappears with even the original stock.
CHANAKYAAccumulated wealth is saved by spending just as incoming fresh water is saved by letting out stagnant water.
More Chanakya Quotes
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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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All types of riches should be amassed by all means.
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Water is the medicine for indigestion; it is invigorating when the food that is eaten is well digested; it is like nectar when drunk in the middle of a dinner; and it is like poison when taken at the end of a meal.
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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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The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.
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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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Love is indicated by deeds. (and not by words)
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If one limb of the body is defected or inflicted with, disease, the whole feels that pain. Some way if any department, minister or official of the state is faulty, the whole country is effected. An administrator should try hard to curb it.
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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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The beauty of a cuckoo is in its notes, that of a woman in her unalloyed devotion to her husband, that of an ugly person in his scholarship, and that of an ascetic in his forgiveness.
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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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As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.
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He who wears unclean garments, has dirty teeth, is a glutton, speaks unkindly and sleeps after sunrise – although he may be the greatest personality – will lose the favour of Lakshmi.
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There is no disease so destructive as lust.
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