black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

A wicked wife, a false friend, a saucy servant and living in a house with a serpent in it are nothing but death.

Chanakya

Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher of poison with milk on top.
CHANAKYA

Avoid Distance Himself Hurt Poison Ruin Talk Try
One’s weakness should not ever be revealed.
CHANAKYA

Oneself Reveal Weakness
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.
CHANAKYA

Beautiful Devotion Education Forgiveness Husband Person Song Ugly Woman
God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.
CHANAKYA

Belief Feeling God Idol Present Soul Temple Yourself
That man who is without religion and mercy should be rejected. A guru without spiritual knowledge should be rejected. The wife with an offensive face should be given up, and so should relatives who are without affection.
CHANAKYA

Affection Appearance Face Family Give Up Knowledge Man Mercy Rejection Relative Religion Spiritual Wife
He who has wealth has friends.
CHANAKYA

Friendship Himself Money One Liner Wealth
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.
CHANAKYA

Beautiful Choice Equality Family Man Marriage Respect Status Wisdom
Your feelings are your god.
CHANAKYA

Feeling God One Liner Yourself
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
CHANAKYA

Beautiful Best Education Friendship Person Respect Worth Youth
Beauty is spoiled by an immoral nature; noble birth by bad conduct; learning, without being perfected; and wealth by not being properly utilised.
CHANAKYA

Beautiful Destroy Moral Nature Proper Ruin Wealth
Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.
CHANAKYA

Break Fools Fruit Person Stupidity Tree Virtual
A still-born son is superior to a foolish son endowed with a long life. The first causes grief for but a moment while the latter like a blazing fire consumes his parents in grief for life.
CHANAKYA

Born Consumption Fire Fools Grief Life Moments Parents Son
He who has wealth has friends and relations; he alone survives and is respected as a man.
CHANAKYA

Alone Friendship Man Relationship Respect Survive Wealth
Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others destroy themselves like serpents that stray onto anthills.
CHANAKYA

Lost Man Mistake Secret Talk
He who gives up shyness in monetary dealings, in acquiring knowledge, in eating and in business, becomes happy.
CHANAKYA

Business Deal Eat Give Up Happiness Knowledge Money Shy
Considersing the forebearance of a person, Do not harass him.
CHANAKYA

Abuse Compassionate Justice Person

A wicked wife, a false friend, a saucy servant and living in a house with a serpent in it are nothing but death.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

A wicked wife, a false friend, a saucy servant and living in a house with a serpent in it are nothing but death.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Chanakya Quotes