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?
CHANAKYAAs 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?
CHANAKYAEven a captured enemy is not to be trusted.
CHANAKYAThe forest fire burns even tree like sandalwood.
CHANAKYAA wicked wife, a false friend, a saucy servant and living in a house with a serpent in it are nothing but death.
CHANAKYAA thing may be dreaded as long as it has not overtaken you.
CHANAKYAA 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.
CHANAKYAA 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.
CHANAKYAWealth, a friend, a wife, and a kingdom may be regained; but this body when lost may never be acquired again.
CHANAKYAThe 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.
CHANAKYASinfully acquired wealth may remain for ten years; in the eleventh year it disappears with even the original stock.
CHANAKYAIt is better to live under a tree in a jungle inhabited by tigers and elephants, to maintain oneself in such a place with ripe fruits and spring water, to lie down on grass and to wear the ragged barks of trees than to live amongst one’s relations when reduced to poverty.
CHANAKYAThere is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
CHANAKYANever make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
CHANAKYAA person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
CHANAKYABefore 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.
CHANAKYAThe 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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