Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.
CHANAKYAGod is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.
More Chanakya Quotes
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The forest fire burns even tree like sandalwood.
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Lakshmi, the Goddess of wealth, comes of Her own accord where fools are not respected, grain is well stored up, and the husband and wife do not quarrel.
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Love is indicated by deeds. (and not by words)
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If a king is energetic, his subjects will be equally energetic.
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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.
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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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A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
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The low minded are fond of deception the nature of low-minded people never changes.
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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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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.
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God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.
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It 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.
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What good is a cow that neither gives milk nor conceives? Similarly, what is the value of the birth of a son if he becomes neither learned nor a pure devotee of the Lord?
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A ruler wishing to win should not trust a captured enemy even if he may be extending had to be friend. Because deep rooted enmity, however, concealed, will surely come to light.
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We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.
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